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7 January 2005: my little "circular poem" is now:
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Talk about shirking one's blogging obligations. . . . Hold. I will say more. Topic: originality. Not much of that here, but enough to make my poem worth doing, for me. Its unoriginalities are the standard grammar, standard lyricopoetic subject matter, standard haikuic under-form, such standard Grummanisms as "slowly," "dream," "xful," giving a mind to something considered mindless, and incorrect verb-usage. What makes it worth doing, for me, is the circularity device, which I don't think used for serious literature until Richard Kostelanetz took it up. My use of it is only a tenth of a dot original, if that--because I may be the first to base a serious imagistic poem on it. But it's new for me, and still unused enough by other poets to qualify, for me, as otherstream--enough so to negate its unoriginalities, I hope.
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