Ah, indeed, Barry, & surely various kinds of response not only to
works, but to the ways of those works do attend to the writing of 'our'
works, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. But the attention you
point to is certainly important.
(Now: when will we see a 'walking woman' poem <g>?)
Doug
On 28-Jun-07, at 10:10 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Doug, I agree that one doesn't "need to know anything else to get into
> the
> piece". My reference is to a particular aesthetic quality Leevi Lehto
> shares with Michael Snow, for example. An added benefit of attending
> to
> their "works" per se. Barry
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