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Both Zukofsky and Olson, who I've just been reading, link the image to "nouns" that don't do violence to each other / "out plus in" as the proper noun. So I'm really sympathetic to your analysis, cheers, Luke On 3 May 2018 at 14:21, Jamie McKendrick < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Michael, thanks - honoured to be included. As you’ll have guessed the > counter example wasn’t offered so much to refute the thesis as to > complicate things. > Anecdote is always used negatively in relation to poetry. I can sort of > see why, though it makes me bridle a bit. But your point about the range of > tenses with regard to narrative is a crucial one, I think. And there’s much > else of interest. > (Oddly enough, I began to pay attention to the elided form (he’d etc.) > in relation to prose. For the first novel I translated, I had an (otherwise > good) copyeditor who spent an inordinate amount of time weeding out these > elisions. So a bothersome slow negotiation had to take place where I > conceded a few and defended the many. It left me with a residual > nervousness about the form, which I’m still not quite free of. It’s never > loomed up in that way in writing a poem where the right form never seems in > doubt.) > > Jamie > > > On 3 May 2018, at 13:25, [log in to unmask] < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/the-verb.html > > > > > > A follow-up, still very much a speculative draft, to last summer's piece > about the word "I'd" . > > > > It takes in some of the subsequent discussion here: Jamie McK gets a > namecheck. > > > > > > Michael >