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THE MANIFOLD
TROPER: poems This collection
(a companion volume to Odes
Method and process is shown, also as if in unpolished workbooks and charcoal sketches, to seriously "break the pentameter". (To criticise poetic hostilities, of those still at ease with the slump – dull boom of monotheo-eristic thinking.)
The material goes from primitive and classical, gods and bodies, present metrics and pointing rhetoric – to prose-modern traditions. |
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CONTENTS preface 1. thalamos & thanatos 2. hymns to hinè 3. telling/ experi(m)ence/ in-form 4. nine nights, an exercise in cymric metrics 5. sure steps & graceful, 64 versions of goethe 6. songs from a scroll or rosary 7. erotic ostraka poettery 8. on occasions/ dodecagenous/ dedications
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(NB: In this book the pages are numbered in the recto & verso system. Therefore only every second page carries the page number. (This system was typical in early codices, when the codex, or book of bound leaves, was superseding the continuous scroll.) In other words, on each "opening" of the book which you will download, the recto is on the right side and carries the page number while the verso is on the left, the reverse of the preceding page, and is marked not with a page number but a Vo symbol. On page 4, for example, the Vo opposite, to the left of 4 recto, is 3 verso. |
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illustrations:
A map of the Manifold valley with musical neumes from the Winchester
Troper,10th century. |