I didn't have any quarrel with your larger
point. And I agree about WCW's playfulness.
Best,
Mark
At 09:24 AM 9/1/2010, you wrote:
>or perhaps, Merk, it's just my interpretation? I'm well aware that WCW went
>to great lengths to involve himself with the structure of his poetry, and
>that those formal aspects took quite a different turn in his later work. I
>simply think that there is always an element of playfulness or joviality in
>his poetry, and that content preceded form for him as well. I may well have
>a limited or superficial view of his writing, but it's not like I'm not
>interested in hearing from more astute readers.
>
>anyway, thanks for ignoring my actual point and zeroing in on my mistake.
>very constructive. ;)
>
>KS
>
>On 31 August 2010 20:49, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > it's the larger spheres that tend to daunt me, having
> >> grown into poetry through people like Williams who found poetry everywhere
> >> around them and for whom form was little more than a playful technicality,
> >>
> >
> > Way off, Kaspar. I'd suggest you reread him.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> >
> >
> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through
> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
> > fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out, the
> > more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and
> bafflingly clear, a pure musical
> > threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
> >
> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> >
New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
$16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
"What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a
lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the
poet alive in every sense of the word, and
through every one of his senses. Instead of
missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ fragments are
like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets
left out, the more they seem to contain… One can
hear echoes from all the various
ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its
core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment
is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
musical threnody…[it] opens a window, not only
into a mind, but a person, a personality, this
human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
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