Doug, many thanks, it does address what I wrote very well.
the opposition could be seen as a convenient fiction, traditionally a
basic trick with metaphysics, although I can understand the difficulty
in understanding since I was using a very high level of abstraction,
trying to get rid of figures so that there are only pure forces and the
figures then come after or can be plugged in to the metaphysical
abstract in different ways sort of like abstract painting.
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:28 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Sorry Chris, But I have to say I probably don't really understand all
> you were saying here. But, in a larger sense, yeah, sure, 'poetry' can
> be all. Where I may disagree is in this idea that the subject-writer
> controls the choice of line breaks, when some might argue that the poem
> under construction does that. I'm thinking also music, that aspect of
> (some, not all?) poetry, where those silences alluded to through
> reference to Miles Davis, tend to have something to do with spacing &
> line breaks.
>
> I admit, although I admire prose poems, & poetic prose, I tend still to
> play the page & the line, but not as fully controlling subject.
>
> (of course, I may not be responding to what you said at all...)
>
> Anyway not opposed but just traveling different paths...?
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