[silence] The first mesostic?

[Andrew Culver]

Marc

 

The excerpt from the Edwin Denby poem you quote:

 

rEmembering a Day i visited you
seems noW as I write that the weather theN was warm

 

conforms to the 50% rule. Which seems quite natural in this format - John
simply capitalized the letters of the name as he wrote, and stopped soon
after the last letter was consumed. 

 

So it appears the rule was in place from the earliest, and for freely
written texts. The writings-through demand more rigour, parsing through
extant texts avoiding rule violations, but not a more elaborate rule (until
the 100% rule came along).

 

It would be interesting to study more of the early ones.

 

Andrew

 

From: Marcthor97@aol.com [mailto:Marcthor97@aol.com] 
Sent: March-30-09 12:02 AM
To: culver@anarchicharmony.org; silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: [silence] The first mesostic?

 

Andrew, you are of course talking about the writing-through mesostics. The
early mesostics (and some of the late ones as well) are freely written and
use the mesostic format but without the elaborate rules for writing-through
compositions.


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