This Sentence No Verb Rich Cochrane's Blog

Reading yet again that the fractured forms of the twentieth century avant gardes were a response to the traumas of the first world war, I’m moved to wonder (a) why anyone thinks this is worth saying, since everyone knows it, and (b) why anyone thinks it’s right.

Courtesy of the Poetry Foundation I just discovered a recording of Caroline Bergvall reading “Via”, a poem composed entirely of English translations of the first line of Dante’s Divine Comedy.