"Without the copying process
this is an unflinching and deeply felt meditation on life and death in a nation in flux
"To have the idea of the secret chord is to have the secret chord
Door zijn contact met Ezra Pound kreeg zijn dromerige poëzie scherpere contouren
The poems go two by two across facing pages
A Talk on Rhyme Orchard "Without the copying processDavid Brazil In A Talk on Rhyme, a text distilled from a lecture given in 2014, poet David Brazil reflects on rhymes emergence, progress, inoperativity, and prospect. The Talk is supplemented by an essayistic bibliography on subjects ranging from classical prosody to American folk music, via writings on and by poets long dead whose names are obvious: Saint Paul, Dickinson, Herbert, Spicer, Hlderlin, Dante, OHara.