[New-Poetry] terror dactyls

[James Cervantes]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:13 AM, <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
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> Maybe the historical record is in tatters and largely oral, but certainly
> 'the sonnet's history' has been studied in depth. Is there a 'first sonnet'
> and who were its first immitators? Where are the irregulars of this
> list's formalist brain trust? Answers please.
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> What are the forms that have died out? The extinct species.Surely a few
> didn't make it over the long haul?
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> Finnegan
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There are genetic traces of dead forms in almost all of contemporary poetry.

That's one flip answer to an interesting question, though it obviously
applies to poets as well as their work.

-- Jim
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