Is this "deign touch" an Americanism? In my usage, it's "deign to touch"
and it means "condescend to touch", but your context suggests another
meaning.
mj
Stephen Vincent wrote:
>As a publisher/editor in many previous manifestations, I have seen poets of
>all kinds. Some that come with work that is 'cabinet finish' that I would
>not deign touch in a month of Sundays! Yet, even in those cases, in terms
>of putting a book together there remains my contribution to a book or mag as
>to how the poems may best sequence (suggestion of different juxtapositions
>of poems, etc.); then there are issues of determining typography and design
>(where - as long as their eyes were not made of tin - I would often keep the
>author in the loop).
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