Beverly Dahlen's "A Reading" is now unfolded in several books, up to 21 sections now, with more coming. Brilliant and much more to be published.
Stephen V
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--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: Re: 25 Questions: # 5
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Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:34 AM
Two words: 1) Ashbery; 2) Flowchart
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Robin Hamilton <
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> Depends what you mean by a long poem -- the sustained narrative text is
> still alive and kicking, or was as late as Hughes' _Gaudete_.
>
> I don't know if long mediations/testaments a la Wordsworth or Villon are
> still being written, but I see no reason why they shouldn't be. (Whether it
> is long enough to count as a long poem, Anne Stevenson certainly wrote her
> own extended version of Villon in "A Testament" in _The Fiction Makers_.)
>
> Other than that, I suspect that much of what was once done in the long poem
> is now more commonly performed in the sequence. This has certainly been the
> strategy used by Edwin Morgan for some considerable time.
>
> (There's also the question as to whether what were once long "epic" poems
> still exist as such, or whether -- I think this argument was made by Robert
> Graves, and later by Philip Hobsbaum -- they have by now collapsed into
> collections of shards and fragments.)
>
> Certainly, I think the long poem has to "justify itself" in a way that
> wasn't always the case. But then, when it comes to this, what else is new?
> I blame the bloody novel myself.
>
> Robin
>
> (still technically homeless)
>
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> 25 Questions, # 5:
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> Is the long poem still relevant or is it just a museum?
>
> Gerald Schwartz
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