On 23-Jun-10, at 1:01 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
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> So do you find most poets writing in free verse not boring?
Didnt say that, Uche; a lot of them are.
>
> I find it hard to credit that Dr. Seuss's work ever came close to
> breaking
> the constraints of the alphabet.
>
> It would be like calling Shakespeare a free verser every time he used
> catalexis.
just a little joke there...
on the other hand, Olson has an essay on Shakespeare that's very
interesting....
I take Catherine's points seriously. There are some poets for whom the
trad forms are freeing, & lead to relevation, but for many they do not
(not to say that just writing another free verse lyric so
conventionalis any better).
But I will stick with Creeley's take on that, & also (although it's
for prose too) Delany's ('Put in opposition to "style," there is no
such thing as "content.")
Okay, I love aphoristic takes...
Doug
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Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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writing Haiku
or, better,
long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
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