Maybe he made it up. Call it, to borrow a phrase from Mac Wellman, the poetry of good intentions. Most of us want to be liked, but Stafford & co want to be liked in their poetry--it seems to be a major concern. Not particularly useful, at least to me. That's the self as self-limiting.
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>From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Nov 28, 2014 3:28 PM
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>Subject: Re: the avant garde vs. the lyrical:the telephone book
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>I can't see how it makes any difference whatsoever whether this
>incident actually happened to Stafford or not. And how would we know
>anyway? When we speak of "poetry of personal [sc. authorial]
>experience" are we not actually speaking of narrative poetry as such?
>Of story? Which is certainly not restricted in usage to any fictional
>mainstream.
>
>PR
>
>
>On 28 Nov 2014, at 20:09, Hall, John wrote:
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>William Stafford, Travelling through the Dark??
>
>http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171495.
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>Now where did that come from?
>
>John
>
>On 28/11/2014 19:38, "Hampson, R" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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