[New-Poetry] large volumes of words

[David Baratier]

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  Leftwich is good, _Doubt_ is the book that comes to mind as the one you might be referring to. The pay off is, as you say, "ready" but the duration I found not to last as long as Bok's Crystallography. I would suggest an even further iteration, to Ivan Arguelles _Madonna Septet_. It is a two volume monster length poem but works in a "thermodynamic" way but different in that this one is comparable to thermodynamism in water. The word surface is agreeable but on further read breaks into the strands that are warmer and cooler as can be seen when looking in illumination. Like Melville's kenning, "whale-road," the surface path to take to the depths depends on your interest as a being. Unlike Leftwich, or Gannick, or Andrews or so on, the attempt is not to wash one away with words as a way to hope to mold a clean slate, a fresh palate, and to tincture the connotative value but rather to take the current values so the bent of meaning, and potential meaning-- (future meaning
 even)-- becomes clearer.  




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