TRP & Poetry: oblique response

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 21 10:15:47 CST 2007


I often think that TRP's fictions are much more
like poetry than, usually, novels....

All that layering of langage; the (often-)encoded meaning. 
As Charles Olson once wrote: Poetry is compacted energy of language...
'symbolic form'...

Like the Cantos. Like The Wasteland with elaborate extended metaphoric scenes.

But I know I am mostly speaking metaphorically myself here.


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