Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Great Regulars: Ken Irby is a Kansas poet who practices

projective verse, a form based on physical acts of speechmaking rather than British poetics. Charles Olson of Black Mountain College (1930s-1950s) taught that a line should be the length of a breath. In poetry like Irby's, the words match human consciousness rather than creating a facsimile of reality.

from Denise Low: Ad Astra Poetry Project: Ken Irby (1936 - )

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