Brackets have been there for a long time Joanna, certainly since the
New American poetry found various uses for them, including the open
kind....
Sheila & I are using them a fair amount in Continuations, & I often use
them in my own work....
They can DO things....
Doug
On 10-Nov-06, at 5:38 AM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
> Hi there everybody -- a friend has just told me that at a recent
> workshop she attended it was suggested that brackets should not appear
> in poetry. She says she's had "a quick look through various
> anthologies and can confirm that they are rare, although not
> non-existent."
>
> Do petc members agree with this dictum, and if so, on what basis? I
> myself have found quite a few examples in recent poetry, but in actual
> collections rather than anthologies. Also, does the use of two dashes
> as a framing device, in the same way as parentheses, come under the
> same embargo? I suspect that one's quite common these days.
>
> best joanna
>
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