Doug, could you please expand on that reference to Denise Levertov and the
line break? I'd like to know more.
And, on the subject of line-breaks (which my instinct would be to hyphenate,
with reference to a recent thread), does anyone else find as I do that the
seed of a poem will very often come with intrinsic line-breaks, even when it
only starts from a couple of half-lines?
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Sapphic shapes
>I read too, Martin, but I don't, certainly, do everything that fellow on
>Andrew's blog suggested. And given the way my poems tend to go, I sure
>don't memorize (although I do recall how brilliantly the late Gwen MacEwan
>recited some of her poems -- mesmerizing, but her work was highly
>repetitive, in the best sense).
>
> But lines, & the shifts that occur at the line break (brilliantly argued
> by Denise Levertov), are definitely a part of the performance for me....
>
> Doug
> On 22-Oct-07, at 6:41 AM, Martin Dolan wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to recall what I do during readings (and they almost
>> always are readings, not recitations) and I think - along with everything
>> else - I'm trying to visualise the lineation (rather than Candice's
>> measures). A bad habit, no doubt.
>>
>> Your 'ingrained....idea of poetry as text rather than utterance' also
>> seems relevant to the question of how some of us don't memorise our
>> poems, touched upon earlier.
>>
>> Martin
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