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or perhaps, Merk, it's just my interpretation? I'm well aware that WCW went
to great lengths to involve himself with the structure of his poetry, and
that those formal aspects took quite a different turn in his later work. I
simply think that there is always an element of playfulness or joviality in
his poetry, and that content preceded form for him as well. I may well have
a limited or superficial view of his writing, but it's not like I'm not
interested in hearing from more astute readers.

anyway, thanks for ignoring my actual point and zeroing in on my mistake.
very constructive. ;)

KS

On 31 August 2010 20:49, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> it's the larger spheres that tend to daunt me, having
>> grown into poetry through people like Williams who found poetry everywhere
>> around them and for whom form was little more than a playful technicality,
>>
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> Way off, Kaspar. I'd suggest you reread him.
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> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through
> every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
> fragments are like Chekhov’s short stories­the more that gets left out, the
> more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
> His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical
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> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
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