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... and an apology for my laziness. That book was filed under Z in my shelves. Shame! Shame! Shame on me ... Andrew On 24 March 2010 16:41, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Three cheers for poetryetc!!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of andrew burke > Sent: 24 March 2010 08:32 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: request for help > > Thanks, Brian. I think I have that text on my shelves! I'll hunt it up > now. Thanks again. > > Andrew > > On 24 March 2010 16:25, Brian Hawkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> "The best way to find out about poetry is to read the poems." >> >> (though I have also seen it written, on the back of a Zukofsky Selected or > Collected, "read the poem." - which I found intriguingly enigmatic.) >> >> It's from "A Statement For Poetry", a 1950 essay. You can maybe read the > whole essay on Google Books, under the title "Prepositions: the collected > critical writings of Louis Zukofsky", pages 19-23. >> >> Brian >> >> --- On Wed, 24/3/10, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> From: andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: request for help >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Received: Wednesday, 24 March, 2010, 7:00 PM >> >> Can someone steer me toward a Louis Zukovsky quote similar to, 'The >> true study of poetry is the poem itself' ?? I'm trying to quote it in >> a piece for an anthology and I can't find it anywhere. >> >> >> Please ... I will be so grateful. >> >> >> Andrew >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ >> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2764 - Release Date: 03/22/10 > 19:44:00 > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html