tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post6167383091159011331..comments2023-09-26T08:04:43.755-07:00Comments on Mark Doty: That suspense of punctuation...Mark Dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-63011111394748904932010-02-10T17:50:29.291-08:002010-02-10T17:50:29.291-08:00Thanks for this. Japanese poets have had their col...Thanks for this. Japanese poets have had their collective finger on this sensibility for centuries, although they accomplish it with the line and with white space.Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211528951336098923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-76283977041769366212010-02-10T01:57:57.115-08:002010-02-10T01:57:57.115-08:00It's the 'what can't be said' that...It's the 'what can't be said' that draws me, has drawn me in ever since I was a child. <br /><br />On the radio tonight I heard about a musician who puts music to the words of 'great' thinkers, people, maybe even certain politicians who speak on worthy subjects. <br /><br />I was stunned when I heard the otherwise ordinary and prosaic words of the speaker backed by music including harmonica playing. Suddenly there was a rhythm there that I had not noticed when the man spoke alone. Amazing.<br /><br />I tell you this because I suspect much of what can't be said falls into the rhythm and this of course includes our punctuation - ED's wonderful dashes.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-32146149803679709962010-02-09T18:22:56.336-08:002010-02-09T18:22:56.336-08:00nice verb list, very ED!nice verb list, very ED!Mark Dotyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-51036327415753004222010-02-09T16:52:05.230-08:002010-02-09T16:52:05.230-08:00I would add: Dickinson's dash helps to superch...I would add: Dickinson's dash helps to supercharge her poems, often makes them tense, breathe, crackle, seethe.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.com