tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post7174685448141379682..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Little cubes from the bones of drowned menJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-27301171379754228392008-04-03T10:52:00.000-04:002008-04-03T10:52:00.000-04:00Well, I try to keep an open mind!I may have been i...Well, I try to keep an open mind!<BR/><BR/>I may have been imprecise in my phrasing, btw--what I object to is poetry that does not seem to have been written with the same level of precision and attention to detail that one would expect from good-quality essayistic prose. Obviously the rules of the language game are different in each case, but one would expect poetry to require greater precision.<BR/><BR/>(I don't think that the Crane lines would have flagged my editorial attention, I like them and in this case his reasoning seems to me entirely persuasive though perhaps of the ex post facto kind--but I also think that any poet or indeed writer more generally benefits from having an editor who asks this kind of question & presses the writer to articulate his or her rationale.)Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-65276378375946978802008-04-03T09:54:00.000-04:002008-04-03T09:54:00.000-04:00It's interesting that you should find this interes...It's interesting that you should find this interesting: you've said yourself that you don't like poetry that doesn't follow the rules of prose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com