Yes I can Joanna
The main essay is 'On the Function of the Line,' (1979), although she
says some interesting things in 'Line Breaks, Stanza-spaces, and the
Inner Voice' )1965), both of which I have in _New & Selected Essays_
New Directions 1992. I think the Line essay has appeared in various
anthologies, however, & there are many other commentaries by Duncan,
Creeley, & later writers, as well. Phyllis Webb has a fine essay on the
line in her collection of essays, _Nothing But Brush Strokes_ (NeWest
Press).
Doug
On 15-Dec-06, at 8:48 AM, Joanna Boulter wrote:
> Doug, can you give me any details on that Levertov essay, please?
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> joanna
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>> Okay, as I thought, it's some error in the works. So I do wonder if
>> it's only me (on my I-Mac?) who's received your poems in that format.
>> And then the one that came through the way you wrote it....
>> It's an intriguing problem, with free or open verse, enjambment, as
>> if you, as I do, follow the New American Poetry version, out of WCW
>> etc, then the line break is a meant pause, one of the ways of
>> creating rhythm. Denise Levertov had a terrific essay on this.
>> Doug
>> On 14-Dec-06, at 4:32 PM, kasper salonen wrote:
>>> ouch, that sounds like an error somewhere in the works; I don't write
>>> prosepoetry (though now you mention it it might be fun to), effective
>>> enjambment is something I've long made an effort in trying to
>>> improve.
>>>
>>> KS
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Douglas Barbour
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Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
If
a city is an invention
why are we not there
Kathleen Fraser
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