Robin
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>Incidentally, would you like to expand on 'open form'? I wouldn't take it
>as a subdivision of free verse, but as a particular trend within
>(predominantly) American poetry -- the line of Olson, Zukovsky, etc. Was it
>Zukovsky who coined the term? (Sorry if I've managed to commit several
>mistakes in the previous sentence -- I really +am+ asking for
>enlightenment.)
I probably can't provide that. Indeed, you're probably right, it's a trend
in NA poetry. I think the term implies more than 'free verse' but that's
maybe just personal taste. I don't know if Zukofsky came up with it, but
there were a couple of anthologies in the 70s I think by that term...
btw I wasn't attacking you just that use of the term 'formalist'...
Doug
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