Ah,
for some reason or other I had been getting all my posts returned
(apparently I hadn't made all my sig into plain text, though I thought
I had; so it goes).
I had sent a note saying I too found Max's snap affecting. And
responded to Dominic's worries about formalist versus being somewhat
formal, which discussion has gone further.
I would of course agree with Mark about taking Creeley's process (& his
thoughts on it) seriously. And I found Annie's take on all the
possibilities intriguing, as certainly one can find that what one is
trying to say leads one into a known form perhaps. (I do think that
talent tells at some point; that sonnet sequence of Marilyn Hacker's
sings in a way that so many other sonnets by contemporary
neo-formalists dont). I stick with George B on that matter, here.
Doug
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not random, these
crystalline structures, these
non-reversible orders, this
camera forming tendencies, this
edge of greater length, this
lyric forever error, this
something embarrassingly clear, this
language we come up against
Kathleen Fraser
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