His complete remark was, "Form is never more than an extension of
content, and content never more than an extension of form." The
summer before Creeley's death he and were talking about this remark and
he told me how frustrated he was that the second half of what he said
is so often ignored.
Annie
On Aug 31, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Let's also throw into the hopper Creeley's "form is nothing but the
> extension of content," which I've always taken to mean that one
> discovers form in the act of writing. This has nothing to do with
> fixed meter or shape or precomposed rules of procedure.
>
> Mark
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