Not that, but perhaps the chosen device. The things about returning to
conversations, or having them again, is that eventually one will repeat
things said before. I still think Marjorie Perloff's Radical Artifice
has much to say about newly designed 'baffles' (as George Bowering
likes to call them) & the writers who have found them liberating &
highly useful (I have tried a few such, myself).
It's possible that entering into a traditional form such as the sonnet
may allow one to do something new, but there are historical constraints
(& language) that often come along with these, while constructing new
formal constraints can possibly provide something other, new,
inventive....
Anyway, her book remains a valuable introduction to these new forms of
writing & their practitioners....
Doug
On 17-Oct-07, at 3:28 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
> "Something wrong with arbitrary devices, KS?"
>
> that's one to think about, HJ. if 'arbitrary' is taken to mean
> 'without reasoned intent', I would question if there even exists such
> a thing as an arbitrary device.
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