I totally agree about this, Stephen:
On 7-Mar-05, at 1:52 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
> Curiously - for me anyway - I suspect what carries a Creeley reading
> is the
> sense of an integrity within each word as if - like a New England
> shaker
> craftsperson - he has tested each syllable of each word for its weight,
> translucence, etc. Each element of which is measured against an
> emerging
> structure. Then he makes it (the form) appear so natural, as if a
> given of
> the world. Only in comparison to the work of others do I realize how
> unique
> the gift, the charm.
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
care to be more
precise about whatever
it is you are
saying, I said
Bill Manhire
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