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I think the lyric has been philosophical from the troubadours, at least. Maybe Sappho. Nothin revlutionary there. Maybe Prynne & Graham appeal because they retain lyric aspects - the assertion of the eye - eschewed by more programmatic or formulaic experimentalists. Actually I know very little about either of em... let's SEE... Bacon, Grosseteste/Theology.... Poetry/Graham, Prynne... that's a Romantic notion, Candice, that JG is challenging the origins of Newton's sleep with Vision... those battles I suppose have to be re-fought all the time (I mean between Vision & Science)... or do they? Seems to me the poem with more depth, more intellectual freight than a Paterian riddle-game, leaves that dichotomy far behind... when you see through, not with, the eye... THE TRUMPET PART deep in the glowing lacuna at lamp height in the time hole: listen your way in with your mouth. - Paul Celan [tr. M. Hamburger]