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Originally Posted by Tony&Cheri
You are very right. In my limited exposure to Asian poetry I have found the structure often is as important as content in conveying the meaning of the words. Less is more seems to be the key.
BTW on a seperate topic...as you like the Beat poets I was wondering if you know of a poem by Kenneth Patchen I've been trying to locate. I don't know the name (yeah, I know that helps a lot  ) but it is about (if I remember correctly) the need for connection to save the universal light. Something like: "if we were all seperate the light would fail". It was published on the inside of the back cover of the Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971) and I have not been able to find it since (my copy of the catalog being buried in storage in San Francisco along with my Zap Comics and copies of the Berkley Barb  ). Can't find it on the net. Ring any bells?
Papa T |
Sorry, it doesn't. Would you recognize the title? Here's a few online by Patchen from Poem Hunter:
http://www.poemhunter.com/kenneth-patchen/
I can also see the author lists online for that last issue, but it just says "poems by..." with no titles. Our U library has a big poetry archive, I'll do some hunting for you...