A cleave by any other name…Part 2: Greg Williamson & Octavio Paz

The cleave – a form waiting to be born?

It seems that a few years before the cleave form Greg Williamson invented a poetic form he called ‘Double exposure’:

• http://books.google.com/books?id=vERZtJC5AmkC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146#PPA146,M1

Even earlier Octavio Paz experimented with similar forms.

Here are some thoughts on Greg Williamson’s Double Exposure:

• http://forums.escapefromelba.com/indexh.pp/topic,36.msg139374.html#msg139374
• http://poetry.seablogger.com/?page_id=10

And some thoughts on Octavio Paz’s ‘proto-cleaves’:

• http://forums.escapefromelba.com/index.php/topic,112.msg141353.html#msg141353
• http://forums.escapefromelba.com/index.php/topic,36.msg141356.html#msg141356