Jeffrey Side wrote:
> Yes, Bob. I agree, especially on Herbert’s connection to “early” concrete poetry.
>
> Of course, I admit that there have been innovations of style since Joyce and Eliot (and Stein, who I forgot to mention), but these have come nowhere near the paradigm shift I mentioned to Desmond.
I must have missed the post in which you mentioned the paradigm shift
you are referring to here, Jeffrey. Also, I'm not talking about
innovations of style, but of technique. But I'm too uniformed about all
that's going on in this discussion to say more . . . yet. As for my
mathematical poetry, and that of a very few others doing a kind of
mathematical poetry, it's definitely innovative. But many don't
consider it poetry, although they can't tell me what it otherwise is,
and there is also the question as to whether it is effectively
innovative, which I don't think will be settled for a while.
--Bob
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