tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post2621398861344897529..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Rethinking E. E. Cummings: An Appeal for a New Reading [redux]Jerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-85855559893553088542013-12-04T10:58:07.322-08:002013-12-04T10:58:07.322-08:00no body gonna comment ? so,
I will jump
there...no body gonna comment ? so,<br />I will jump<br /><br />there are those certain poets .... and I like your <br />compound-complex con-jection : "verbovisual"<br /><br />as<br />there are those very few master poets who must be revisited & read for their form rather than their content<br />&<br />very rare when a poet-crafstman simultaneously embraces both;<br /><br />E.E. Cummings is in my top-tier of those who so do...<br />entirely via their particular vocabulary.<br /><br />I also like this that you say:<br /><br />"Cummings first allowed me to see that language was more than an adherence to the rules we had imposed on it, that there was in fact a range of remaking that was not only possible but often necessary in all our language acts as poets."<br /><br />well,<br />thanks for this.... and all of the other "stuff" that you do.... for "those who dig it"<br />&<br /><br />an happy birthday to yuh, too.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com