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Ronald Johnson adresses this at length within the length of his "ARK". Gerald S. > And what do you make of the fact that poems are almost invariably > published on a sheet that bears no dimensional relationship to that on > which they were conceived and licked into shape? It's no jest that most > poems of all lengths read all wrong -- *there is a reason* - they're all > profoundly alienated ... > > hny all > e > >> So much of this seems to be decided by the technology. Like I've always >> believed the 30-line lyric relates directly to the A4 page (or whatever >> you >> geezers call it over there: your 30-line lyrics are probably a bit >> longer). >> The first poetry workshop I ever took was with Eavan Boland. She posed a >> question: "How do you know when the poem is finished?" I *always* knew >> when >> the poem was finished: when I got to the end of the page.