Tuesday, July 17, 2007

News at Eleven: "Sough" earns its keep,

despite being riskily poetical, thanks to its music: that is, its assonantal echoing of the last syllable of "willow" and the pointed contrast, heightened by the unvoiced/voiced "g" and the little gulf of white paper between them, with "grave". What on earth made her think of "grave"?

from The Guardian: A lens of rising water

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