TRP & Poetry: oblique respons

[Daniel Harper]

My girlfriend recently got her BA in Creative Writing with an emphasis
in poetry -- I lent her my copy of Lot 49 so she could give P a try.
I'll of course let the group know if she has any particular pearls of
wisdom for us; I read her the first couple of paragraphs of GR one day
and she remarked on how poetic the rhythm of the language was....

On Nov 21, 2007 10:15 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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...the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules
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--Daniel Harper