Now that's novelistic, as the two 'poets' (their poems) are definitely
different. Or different enough to be constructed as from different
characters....
The novel sounds intriguing, Mark.
Doug
On 24-Mar-07, at 12:00 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>
> The Argentine novelist, dramatist and sometime poet Jorge Accame found
> himself a couple of years ago writing poems in the voices of several
> fictional poets. He says it's not quite heteronymic but something
> approaching it. Since then he's been working on a novel in which the
> poets are characters, and when I spoke to him last he planned to
> include some of their poems. Here are my translations of a couple of
> poems by two different "poets."
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