Commentary Line 137 Lemniscate (+ cloutish query)

Michael Joseph mjoseph at rci.rutgers.edu
Tue Sep 30 00:20:51 CDT 2003


Now, check the index in in Graves' WHITE GODDESS under hazel ...

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Prsamsa at aol.com wrote:

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> I repeat this, though I usually write "casually" and throw in a bunch of
> ideas, so this in another post as well.
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> Nabokov;  Butterflies--hourglass and figure-eight shaped.
> Why not throw in a little dictionary-poetry if you're stuck for a couple
> stanzas,
> and poets most of all have been known to do that--
> why--because, ever since Pound, because they can.
> Pound:  "it is a poem when I say it's a poem."
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> Perry.
> no sig.
> I'm on a roll.
>




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