I don't know if Peter is pulling someone's leg, but there's a detailed
discussion of the topic in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics, and then there is this on Poetry Mag's website:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19939. But it is not in the
shorter OED, which is all I have in my western summer getaway.
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Home page: michaelhellerpoetry.com
Recent books: This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 (Nightboat Books, 2012);Beckmann Variations & Other Poems (Shearsman, 2010); Eschaton (Talisman, 2009); Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the work of George Oppen (Salt, 2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Salt, 2005); Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2003). Available at bookstores, SPD and at Amazon.com
Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson: This Art Burning and other poetry, Benjamin (a music-theater work based on the life of Walter Benjamin), go to: http://www.efjcomposer.com/efjcomposer/Welcome.html and for excerpts visit Ellen’s Youtube videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/efjcomposer
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