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On My Desk Now - “Finger Exercises” and The Question of Received Forms in Poetry

[E]ven to think about publishing these poems, much less to consider making a book out of them, is by definition to place them in the context of the [formal and political] traditions of which they are a part.
Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

On My Desk Now - “Finger Exercises” and The Question of Received Forms in Poetry
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