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Pearl . He kindly obliged by sending us a poem. An exchange of letters ensued in the course of which he extended to us an invitation to call upon him in Tangier. When (after about 18 months) we accepted, he provided us with his street address which is not the same as his postal address. We enter and shake hands and are offered tea. Black tea with slices of lemon, served in cups of thick transparent glass. Bowles’ modest but modern apartment consists of three or four rooms. There is a hallway stacked with old suitcases, a small kitchen, and a dim bedroom with an adjoining bathroom.

Hartman reminds us that Pound used to “revise a poem without changing a single word” (59). As lineation offers the poet control over the way a poem is to be read, the choice to print a poem in prose is also an exercise of control. Or it is relinquishing control. In any case it’s a choice the poet has made to direct “the reader’s temporal experience of the poem, especially his attention to that experience” (13). And this is Hartman’s definition of prosody.

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