EVENING WILL COME: A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POETICS (ISSUE 15: MARCH 2012)

Dale Smith
Ten Easy Pieces: A Poetics of Inquiry           (page 4)

4. Creeley prizes pleasure, too:

     When young, I’d written Olson with almost pious exclamation: “Form is
     never more than an extension of content.” Now I might say equally,
     “Content is never more than an extension of form.” It depends, as they say in
     New England. Back of it all I hear Williams, saying all those years ago, “Why
     don’t we tell them that it’s fun…” Such fun, such delight, when all
     possibilities of such act come together in words moving in mind’s
     recognition with body’s weight and measure (Autobiography, Madras:
     Hanuman Books, 1990).


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