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>Sorry about all the contradictions (do I dontradict myself? Very well,
>I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes. Hey, come one,
>everyone likes at least one Whitman line. . .)
i love whitman... and contradictions are an important part of life, thuis
their importance in my theories on poetry... contradiction : irony : (in
science) complexity. i'll stop before this turns into a polemic.
>(and had gone through never to return the Beatnik Ginsberg
>phase),
huh?
the beats are important-- as are (esp.) the black mountain poets.
>But you love in spite of, not because of.
amen.
>And we all know that if it weren't for EP, there would be no 20th
>century poetry in any form we know it.
(another, louder): amen.
>Neither pound nor ferlinghetti
>are taught, notice.
good point...
>Say it! No ideas but in things. Mr.
>Paterson has gone away
>to rest and write. Inside the bus one sees
>his thoughts sitting and standing. His
>thoughts alight and scatter
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> William Carlos Williams
good. i wonder why there is not a williams discussion list???
jeff.
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There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass,
there are only
eyes in all heads
to be looked out of
-charles olson, from "letter 6" (of the maximus poems)
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