Ah, for me that brings us back to how well the writer does what s/he
is doing.
There's also the fact that not every work works, even in the cases of
some of the best writers.
And personal interest: I find Spicer consistently interesting; not
always the acse, for me, with some of the others you mention....
Doug
On 15-Apr-10, at 5:47 AM, John Herbert Cunningham wrote:
> This discussion brings up the issue of discursiveness in poetry.
> Some of
> Ashbery's poetry would certainly qualify under this term as would
> Philip
> Whalen, Alan Ginsberg, Jack Spicer, etc. etc. etc. Is there a clearly
> defined border between discursiveness and 'slovenly and self-
> indulgent' or
> does this exte
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