I wasn't lying to Jordan Davis when I told him W C Williams had done some magnificent work. That's the way remembered it, and I told him I'd do a post here about why Williams' poetry was so much better than his theory. In particular I wanted to talked about Pictures from Breughel, which absolutely enthralled me. But I don't have that book here, and I what I found in the anthologies I do have access to I didn't like—not even "The Dance," which starts wonderfully and just falls apart grammatically and rhythmically in the last few lines. Maybe I'm just tired, and maybe I'll feel differently when I do retrieve the book Memorial Day weekend. So I'll beg off until then. OK, Jordan?
Jordan himself has two blogs, Equanimity and Million Poems. I'd looked at Equanimity casually, but hadn't followed the links from his often gnomic remarks. Today I spent some time today looking around this month's Equanimity archive, and discovered I've been missing a lot! This weekend I'll be revising the blogroll accordingly. Equanimity is there now.
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