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
volume’s first definition of "metrics, " "the relationship of [one’s]
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 won’t ever go away. Prosody’s 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
I’ve got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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