Well one version, Michael's, is this:
--but at the level of prosody, forms (and not just traditional scansion)
are content neutral.
but these others, which i tend to lean towards, include Creeley's big one:
Form is never more than an extension of content, Levertov's slight change:
Form is never more than a revelation of content, & the Samuel R Delany's
(SF writer) saying, Put in opposition to 'style' [form], there is no such
thing as 'content.'
As far as I can tell from reading his lectures, that tends to be Bunting's
view too. But then, he insists (despite what his own poems do, which is
tell us much) that he's not interested in content in poetry, he's
interested in the music.
Doug
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