This thing about reading badly, Rebecca:
>
>It is true, though, that many of them reading poems aloud
>read them badly, barely making their way through the language
>and so it takes several readings to get past that hesitation
>to any sense of sound, line, rhythm, or syntax. The awkwardness
>of speech in general.
goes further. I've hard some students in CW classes read their own poems
awkwardly & even misread/mispronounce words they wrote!
Which suggests just how not done reading aloud is in our culture...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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How, but thru a monstrous 'specialism', the so-called authority
of erstwhile 'professionals', have we come to leave
_breath_ out of images and _images_ out of breath, anyhow?
Roy Kiyooka
