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ajl wrote: > > Anyone read Muldoon's 'Incantata'? - his beautiful, rambling homage > & elegy to the Irish printmaker Mary Farl Powers? Krapp, Watt, > Vladimir & Estragon get a serious working over, as do many others > from many sources. This poem is a fine e.g. of sampling, where > fragments are made to cohere, lyrically. It comes in & out of focus: > static? scratches on the emulsion? a non-fatal error while > bodysurfing the web? It's brilliant. > > Anthony L. Yes, read it a whiles back & it impressed me more than anything I've read by him. "Yarrow" from the same book engendered a parody "Skunk-Cabbage" I've lost among debris... Will reread Incantata pronto, thanks, Pete. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%