swampy

We're in DC with my family and while our children nap I've been reading this good anthology of "experimental"/ disjunctive UK women poets, edited by the US-to-UK transplant poet Carrie Etter, and also reading this very good anthology of UK and US poets invited to Oxford by Christopher Ricks. They are thesis and antithesis, or avant-garde and retro, or something. I'll have more to say about the apparent opposition between them elsewhere soon, with any luck.

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