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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Correlation methods of comparing idiolects in a transition area
The cover of Jack Spicer's seventh book seems such a straightforward depiction of the poet's place in the academy.
I wish some other poets with day jobs had tried similar designs: a paregoric prescription by William Carlos Williams; a double indemnity policy by Wallace Stevens; a profits chart by Ron Silliman; a customs report by Geoffrey Chaucer....