Rhetoric Questings

          
                                               
                                          
On Volume in Poetry                          
is a provocative essay in his continuing effort to define
a space hundreds of poets are exploring from hundreds of   
directions.  Names for this space have been proposed:    
Third Way, Elliptical, American Hybrid.  Perhaps it'd be   
best to let it be nameless.  The only other option is to   
make believe Ron Silliman is Euclid.  Then it could be  
named: Non-Silliman Poetries, or something to that defect.
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Read Mr. Abramson's essay and especially the comments by 
upinVermont, Art Durkee, and Curtis Faville in this order.

                                                            
In northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior the young poet,
Aaron Apps, posted Poet as Platypus: a fine example of       
the integrated thinking prevalent among many younger
poets.  Reading it will benefit your brain.  Charles  
Bernstein and William Blake are stars in it.          
                                                    
                                                      
                                                      
                                                        
                                                         
                                                       
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