[New-Poetry] Re: Sounding my barbaric AWP

[David Graham]

I guess I am an ultra-talker, at least in some poems.   I'm in the  
TriQuarterly issue, in any case, so I guess it's official.  Much of  
the AWP panel did wrestle with the definitional question, of course,  
and no one's foolish enough to attempt an airtight taxonomy or deny  
the many and deep roots of the phenomenon.

Mark Halliday in his talk made the shrewd choice of defining by  
negation, and his example was W. S. Merwin in his *Lice* phase:  the  
opposite of ultra-talk turns out to be a lyric like "For the  
Anniversary of My Death."  A poem of "holy hush," he called it, and  
contrasted it with a very funny rewrite he'd done, turning it into a  
proper ultra-talk poem.


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On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:52 PM, AlMaginnes at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/6/2008 4:23:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> grahamd at ripon.edu writes:
> Beyond that, I'm always happy to talk further. . . .
> Are you an ultra talker too, Dave?
>

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