Ha, intriguing Joe, & we all have our own various travels to wherever
we write now.
I feel I lucked out in that somehow or other I got ahold of The New
American Poetry just as I was beginning to learn, this after Louis
Dudek's course on modernism introduced me to Pound & Eliot. I just
followed along the line set up from Pound/Williams down. And attached
what I learned there to the Canadian poets who meant most to me,
beginning with Phyllis Webb, who remains one of the greatest mentors I
ever found.
Doug
On 10-Oct-07, at 7:13 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> John Latta on Louise
> Bogan<http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/10/07/john-latta-on-louise-bogan-
> on-shifting-poetic-style-or-my-poetic-lineage-ii/>&
> the vagaries of poetic style.
Douglas Barbour
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and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
Phyllis Webb
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