As Marjorie Perloff pointed out, one of the things Pound did for
poetry in the 20th century, was bring back prose information into it;
if this is a series, Dave, then there be ways to include that info, in
interstices, titles, etc...?
Doug
On 26-Mar-08, at 8:25 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I'm not wild about the first line, it could get absorbed into an
> eventual
> (final) title. Perhaps. I do sometimes write "social historical"
> poetry but
> it's not easy to incorporate the necessity of facts within the
> requirements
> of poetry. Such facts tend to be lumpy and arrhythmical. Like
> handling great
> globs of wet sticky clay.
>
> best
>
> Dave
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