Thanks Doug -
I admire WCW's snaking sprung verse greatly, & perhaps it is a descendent of
that, though I was wondering if it might a recent 'default position' for what
young practitioners think poetry 'looks like' nowadays.
Anywayz, an idle thought. Cheers,
S
At 03:37 PM 3/11/02 , you wrote:
>Well, Sam, at last one place it comes from is WCWilliam's 'variable line'
>verse in his late books. But in Williams, it works, & also tends to spread
>acros the field of the page. Check out the beauty of it in Journey to Love,
>Pictures from Brueghel, etc...
>
>Doug
>
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> Shakespeare
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> Up these stairs & tell me
> What you died of,
> I think
> I've got it
> Too.
> Sharon Thesen
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