"American humorist Don Marquis once said that publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal into the Grand Canyon . . . and waiting for the echo."
It has been ages since I read Don Marquis. I possibly have something of his left in an anthology, but that would be it. I was reminded of archy and mehitabel after reading the above sentence in a paper about E.E. Cummings. Never a great influence on mine, his writing appealed to me because of its lack of capitalization and punctuation. I followed the lead of Cummings in that for a long time (as the days of youth are counted).
It has been ages since I read Don Marquis. I possibly have something of his left in an anthology, but that would be it. I was reminded of archy and mehitabel after reading the above sentence in a paper about E.E. Cummings. Never a great influence on mine, his writing appealed to me because of its lack of capitalization and punctuation. I followed the lead of Cummings in that for a long time (as the days of youth are counted).
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