Curtis: I suspect that Heather McHugh's poetry, and especially her book "The Father of the Predicaments," is a contemporary example -- and one in which the poet is very likely deliberate in replicating these forms.
It usually makes me a little uncomfortable when someone tries to show laws or patterns of, say, physics at work in art. My concern is that the laws of science are sufficiently general so that they can be found in almost any complex, nuanced phenomenon. However, if I'm reading the article right, these laws are the laws of complexity, not of reductionism... Or am I talking in circles too?
In any case, I wonder whether we have here a striking insight into this poem in particular, or rather a new way of describing what goes on in any complex, self-referential system, including poetry.
Thanks for a provocative post.
RPW
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