Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Great Regulars: Indeed, many poems consist of nothing but

juxtapositions and repetitions. "Another Autumn," for instance, is a series of one-line sketches--"a feathering of the ink whereby characters lose definition" is followed by "overlapping windowscreens, one pattern interfering with another," which is in turn followed by "sideways, all the politeness, all that irony, trying for a draw" (an echo of a line from "A Pillow-Book," a much earlier [Michael] O'Brien poem).

from David Orr: The New York Times: Words of the World

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