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act (As

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private prudery
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the
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wives

Answer to Agenda Questionnaire on Rhythm

A Letter

           I must answer your questions in shorthand not because they
seem to me uninteresting or unimportant, but for the contrary
reasons, and I am deep in work at the moment and must try to
remain on the surface or to hold my distance.  I'll follow, here,
the order in which the questions are asked  –  or more or less
that order.
The problem of English vs American accent.  Yes, it troubles me,
nor is this all: there are local accents in both countries heard
a young man reading in the state of Maine, reading Pope: his
voice carried no implication, no trace of iambic, and he was
not aware of the possibility of that scansion  –
          it was, in fact, not possible for him.  AND the American
South  –  not to mention the unimagined cadences of the Beatles
–  who could have forseen them?  – – –
                like others, I have pondered notations  – –  I know of
none that offers a solution to this problem.  (it might be well to
consider Eliot's extraordinary capacity to echo voices in the Waste
Land  – –  (yes, I meant: voices in the waste land
                but the voice that leaps, the voice that leaps outward
outward          up ward?
             –  and so, indeed, one speaks to himself. The process by
which sometimes a line is found, I cannot trace. Given a line,
one has a place to stand.         And goes further

from    Song:   The Winds of Downhill

             .    .    .    Who
so poor the words

would    with     and    take on substantial

meaning     handholds     footholds

to dig in one's heels     sliding

hands and heels beyond the residential
lots        the plots  

which may be sung
may well be sung

          ie: there are 'accents'which are WRONG.  We, the poets,
change the accents, change the speech.  We change the speech
because we are not explaining, agitating, convincing: we do not
write what we already knew before we wrote the poem.

          I think I've answered.

DS#1

Black. To the
Over leg of G

The violet map.

Down
Up. Flat
Dull loose
Inevitables

To the loud

mud roofs...