7.18.2003

The work involved. . . doesn't it have to do, in the long run, with what we identify as Truth? Beginning with puppy love for adored poems - listening, imitating, re-writing to suit different circumstances. Similar to adapting fashions from "models", or cardinals imitating car alarms. Milton reading Virgil. Shakespeare watching Marlowe. Then they go to work. Because if it's not re-written, it becomes a grave. Every poem ends as trobar clus : textual solipsism. The counter-weight of artifact & communication (Letter killeth/Spirit giveth life).

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