Okay Mark:
>This is a disagreement among friends, as I'm sure you're aware. It's
>nonetheless a disagreement.
I guess. I would say that I too am old enough to be 'influenced' by poets
who were there long before the LangPo types. Some of whom are our peers, at
least in terms of their ages. But I point therefore to some of mine as well
as to WCW, Pound, then ther poets in that tradition. And I read your poems
as in that trad too... That's all... what you all 'some shared ancestry.'
>
>Where is your comment about emotion directed?
I may never have made one. But my comments on poetry are in _Lyric /
Anti-lyric_ (NeWest Press 2002).
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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'The Critic"
I cannot possibly think of you
other than you are: the assassin
of my orchards. You lurk there
in the shadows, meting out
conversation like Eve's first
confusion between penises and
snakes. Oh be droll, be jolly
and be temperate! Do not
frighten me more than you
have to! I must live forever.
Frank O'Hara
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