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Here's the site I found: http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~efoster/bronk_links.html Best wishes Matthew Francis [mailto:[log in to unmask] 01443 482856 -----Original Message----- From: William Herbert [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 05 April 2000 14:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: William Bronk Dear Group, Interesting thread: any more info about those websites, or can someone post something by him? Best, Bill -----Original Message----- From: David Zauhar <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 05 April 2000 14:49 Subject: Re: William Bronk >On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Francis M (HaSS) wrote: > >> What do you all think of William Bronk? I came across a tiny, very >> impressive poem in something I was reading recently, and thought I must >> investigate. I'd never heard of him - perhaps he is not well known on this >> side of the Atlantic, or it could just be that I haven't been paying >> attention. There turns out to be quite a lot of stuff on the Web, mostly >> criticism rather than poems. He seems like the kind of poet I'm always >> looking for, offbeat but with great ambition and scope. His work isn't in >> the library here, but his Collected Poems are available from Amazon for >> about GBP 10. I'm tempted. >> >Yield to that temptation. Bronk, from what I can tell, didn't publicize >himself very much, just worked his day job and wrote many many incredible >poems when he was working his real job. His essays, called, I think, >_Vectors and Smoothable Curves_ are also worth a look, especially for his >lengthy considerations of 19th C. American writers like Melville and >Thoreau. If I may put in a snide remark here, I would take the "New >Formalists" more seriously if they would promote the work of poets like >Bronk, whose work is more carefully crafted than that of the >Neo-Expansive-Formalistos. > >David Zauhar > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%