Lines we can remember: I think we leave those to
the admen and pols nowadays.
Hal
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On Jun 30, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Not necessarily, Joe. I want to go to places where an editor has
> looked at the material & made a decision to accept it.
>
> (Then I want to trust that editor)
>
> I think I was most taken by Stephen's comments about reading poetry
> & not being able to remember much about a lot of it. Yet, I carry,
> even in my rather sieve-like mind, a number of lines (& therefore
> something of the poems from which they come); many are older, by
> masters, such as Yeats, Pound, or ever much earlier poets.
>
> Do I want to write a line that will be remembered? Probably. Do I
> want someone to read a few f my poems sometime in the future & feel
> as if they have received a worthy communication? Yup. I do so wish.
>
> But I also realize that I read a lot of word oriented away from the
> lyric line toward the larger gestures of form in which the
> individual line or stanza is less important than the overall effect...
>
> And I like those, too....
>
> Doug
> On 30-Jun-08, at 9:34 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>
>> Doug, thanks. I find it interesting that a thread -- where the hell
>> is
>> Stephen? he started this! -- about the place of the lyric (and poetry
>> generally, by extension), wound around & came down to modes of
>> publication.
>> My personal bit of this was, "Why write at all if one doesn't have
>> readers?"
>> I got some good responses to that question. Not fully explored,
>> though, is
>> the role of the editors & other gatekeepers that David wants to do
>> without.
>> I'm not sure we can do without them, in some form. Perhaps I cede
>> them too
>> much power.
>>
>> jd
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