CONSTRUCTIVIST PHASE
Like a fabulous building,
modern design in slick concrete and glass
Perched at an outlook on the banks
of a rocky river turning in the spray
Except maybe the river was better
Footnote:
Has anyone made explicit reference to Coleridge on 'fancy' and
'imagination', though no doubt I'd have missed it, which I've generally
taken as a defence of Romanticism, and Wordsworth in particular, and a
subtly convoluted rebuke to the pale and ineffectual predictability of much
Augustan verse?
Also on Prynne, the clearest assessment of his challenging and complex
oeuvre that I've come across is probably in Allen Fisher's assessment some
while ago of "A Various Art" [resonances of shades and distinctions of
constructivism, decorative art, originary impulses and prerogatives etc],
which was in the final issue of 'Reality Studios'. Other than that, Prynne
on Prynne is occasionally some help, and I'm, at present, deeply unclear of
the relevance of Blake, or indeed Ed Dorn (this gets mentioned in the
'Preface' to the very accessible and coherent "Other" anthology), to the
demonstration of an innovative and transformative (I think) literary praxis
Prynne has been producing for the last thirty years. Equally, I'm
continually confronting the impression that "The White Stones" is
fundamentally unlike any other book Prynne has written.
Which is where I have to sign off until I can catch up on later digests...
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