I like it, what Alice says, too. She has not visited the Bay Area in a long
time - but she is a great reader with work to match.
Who is the publisher and where be the review??
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Because as I recall we were (re)arguing about all this recently.
>
> Alice Notley has a new book of essays on poetry out, Coming After, & in
> her review of it, Joyelle McSweeney reports on how 'she delivers the
> volumeıs first definition of "metrics, " "the relationship of [oneıs]
> extraordinarily precise line to its content."
>
> Boy, I like that, & I also like:
>
> 'Prosody is a real subject, how you or your thought becomes articulate
> in a precise time that wonıt ever go away. Prosodyıs a decision you
> keep having to make.'
>
> It's thoughts such as this that demonstrate the power of the open.
>
> Doug
>
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> Shakespeare
> Drag yr mouldy old bones
> Up these stairs & tell me
> What you died of,
> I think
> Iıve got it
> Too.
>
> Sharon Thesen
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