[New-Poetry] American sentences

[Anny Ballardini]

If you go there, then we have to mention our James Finnegan and his
Ursprache.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:08 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

> Even that windbag Allen Ginsberg had an interest in brevity & possibly
> concision.  He experimented with what he called American Sentences, which
> are simply 17-syllable sentences indebted to haiku.
> There's a pretty interesting web site devoted to the
> form.  Here is Paul Nelson's essay on it:
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> http://www.americansentences.com/about.html
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> Kim Addonizio, in her how-to book *Ordinary Genius*, pushes the use of
> American
> Sentences as a kind of warm-up exercise for students, and as discipline in observation.
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> Here's an example from Ginsberg:
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> *Tompkins Square Lower East Side N.Y.*
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> Four skinheads stand in the streetlight rain chatting under an umbrella.
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