| | AFTER FREE VERSE: THE NEW NON-LINEAR POETRIES (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | To call such poetry "free verse" is not quite accurate, for something is certainly being counted in these little block-like stanzas, even if it is neither stress nor syllable but word. |
 | | Lines linear outline, clear boundaries' effect, notice the package from its perimeter, consistency, evenness, seemingly internal contours which end up packaging the insides so that they can react or point or be subordinated to a homogenized unit, to what's outside. |
 | | But note that it never even occurs to the editors to include Canadian poets or poets of other English-speaking countries; their chauvinism is characteristic of the U.S.-centered imperialist ethos of the 60s. |
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