“You are next in line”: Moving down the Line(s) with Ron Padgett

“No ideas but in hinges,” poet Stephen Rodefer once quipped in his poem “Numberless Shadows,” playfully modifying William Carlos Williams’s famous line. This essay examines line breaks as poetic hinges in the work of Ron Padgett: they are flexible spaces where the parts of the poem turn and articula...

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Main Author: Olivier Brossard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2021-07-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/17248