But for the writer, Mark, 'accidental on purpose'?
I mean, along the way, many of those 'serendipitous readings' come
about by choice. I found a copy of Olson's The Maximus Poems (Jargon
24) in a small bookstore in Halifax, say, & the dedication to 'the
figure of outside' led me to Creeley? Etc? Which is partly true,
although, of course, I & my writing friends had already 'found' The
New American Poetry, but that lucky 'find' was a kind of choice, it
rather than some of the other anthologies around at the time, which
didnt offer the same important goods.
Doug
On 31-Mar-10, at 8:16 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Armand Schwerner called it the "accidental curriculum."
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