Glad you enjoyed it! I had been re-reading it around the time i saw your sonnet and felt there were connections there and thought I would pass the essay along. . .to see if you might feel akin to it as well.
Millicent
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Stunning essay, Millicent. Thanks for alerting me to it.
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3824&context=iowareview
I liked, among much else, the notion of poetry being ‘a loud stage whisper’
but also (paradixically?) the George Oppen fragment she quotes, that
writing should seek ‘not to make a noise: to keep one’s attention outward
towards silence.’
Not at all sure that my drafty sonnet moves anywhere near Boruch, nor
anything she examines. But I will re-read for much of that discussion of
poetic impetus and the role of memory.
Bill
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 9:16 am, Millicent Borges Accardi <
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> What about from the Marianne Boruch essay "Poetry's Old Air"?
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> New Poetry Collection: Only More So @ Amazon
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> @TopangaHippie on TwitterÁgua mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
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> What has become of the careful posted word?
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> Once blood drove ink and often paused for thought.
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> Now keys are grazed and to the Web referred -
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> e-mail will do if all you want is blurt.
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> What now the role of banter face-to face?
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> How much are eyes and ears and touch required?
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> At one remove, print words leave their clear trace,
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> Evidence engraved, unvocally mired.
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> On-page words in a sentence invented
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> penetrate deeper than those wagged by chin.
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> Something there clings to a message cemented,
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> the uttered word more of a bulletin.
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> Best of all, poems are rarely outdone,
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> tap dancing on screens, on paper and tongue.
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> bw
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