Someone has thought long and hard about it:
http://www.thepequod.org.uk/essays/litcrit/parenthe.htm
On 11/10/06, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Michael Donaghy has a poem with empty parentheses, the nearest he got
> to experimenting or being oh so post-modern.
>
> I'd be surprised if anthologies which contained Emily Dickinson's work
> did not have the - - framing device.
>
> I think it's a silly dictum and can't think why anthologisers would
> avoid poems with brackets. Too difficult? How about : or ;? Maybe --
> is the new ()?
>
> Roger
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