From way outside the 'country', it seems to me that in writing, the trick
is to somehow get the feel of the local without falling into a 'dialect'
readers elsewhere can't 'get'. So I point to Briggflats, as so often I
would, as a poem in which that feel of the sound comes through on the
page...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
We deserve overtime
for dealing daily with these mistreated burdens.
Clark Coolidge
