Tom Orange in relationship to Stephen Emmerson’s Poetry Wholes

In a follow up to the previous post, in Tom Orange’s article in Jacket on the early Coolidge he proposes a Poetry Whole. In this incredibly interesting article he puts a Coolidge ‘Space’ template over works by Ted Berrigan and Kenneth Koch with highly interesting results.

If we pare down the Berrigan and Koch poems in an attempt to arrange their denser materials, the results not only bear a closer resemblance to Space, but allow us to see a different order informing the texts

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Tags: clark coolide, if p then q, kenneth koch, poetry wholes, stephen emmerson, ted berrigan, tom orange