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No, it's not part of series, Doug, it's just like, or one of a kind of, a certain type of poem I sometimes write. But, yes, if it were part of a series ... I don't feel, pace Perloff, that Pound's imagistic and rhythmic techniques succeeded in digesting the gobbets and wedges of prose content in The Cantos. On 27/03/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > As Marjorie Perloff pointed out, one of the things Pound did for > poetry in the 20th century, was bring back prose information into it; > if this is a series, Dave, then there be ways to include that info, in > interstices, titles, etc...? > > Doug > > On 26-Mar-08, at 8:25 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > > > I'm not wild about the first line, it could get absorbed into an > > eventual > > (final) title. Perhaps. I do sometimes write "social historical" > > poetry but > > it's not easy to incorporate the necessity of facts within the > > requirements > > of poetry. Such facts tend to be lumpy and arrhythmical. Like > > handling great > > globs of wet sticky clay. > > > > best > > > > Dave > > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > to rid me of > the ugh in > thought > i spell anew > weave the world > out of the or > binary > > bpNichol > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk