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Language Poetry
What follows began as a response in Ron’s Squawkbox comment window, but it started getting too long so I transplanted it. I’m not sure I agree that “langpo as a social phenomenon demonstrated as broad...
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Daily Thoughts – Teachers: Emotional poetry
The emotive function (set toward the addresser), as Jakobson describes it, could be seen as the least intrinsically “linguistic” of all the linguistic functions. That is, whereas the referential...
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Test of Poetry
In response to Ron’s Test of Poetry, and his discussion of “the question of naming & context, of anonymity & content”: This exercise reminds me of the passage in Lacan’s Four Fundamental...
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Rhina P. Espaillat poem
Jonathan, I feel, indulges that Rhina P. Espaillat poem far more than it deserves. Even granted that the sonnet is apparently part of a longer cycle, which I haven’t read, and which looks like it has...
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