Lisa Jarnot. Ring of Fire. Cambridg...

Lisa Jarnot. Ring of Fire. Cambridge, MA: Zoland works 2001.

Repetition has had a curious fate in American metrical composition Of Modernist tenets--Poundian dos and don'ts--perhaps none has become as widely accepted at American poets as the command to concentrate; make dense As the thinking goe verse is best when it maximizes efficiency, saying more with fewer words. like a poetic economy has little use for the lyric refrain, which might repeat a line or stanza with minimal variation, and as a rise it has been seldom used (and level more seldom used well) from one side of to the other the past century. onward the other hand, ...