Not sure about that, Dave, as all they might notice would still be
those papers.
I do recall Robert Duncan taking 15 years off from book publication,
while writing some of his major late work; now that was both possible,
& a nervy attempt to avoid too quick public review while exploring the
possibilities of his poetic.
Doug
On 23-Apr-10, at 2:42 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> as there would be no strictures against
> re-publication, we would have ample opportunity to assemble
> retrospectives
> and collected works, reputations could be thoughtfully and
> fastidiously
> examined, perhaps people would begin to remember how to read, other
> than if
> scanning a newspaper, and most of all there would be restoration of
> poets to
> what should be their true proving ground: the blank solitude of the
> page.
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