A Talk on Rhyme Orchard "To have the idea of

"To have the idea of the secret chord is to have the secret chord

" along slant logics and rhymes ("ballet-wallet

Door zijn contact met Ezra Pound kreeg zijn dromerige poëzie scherpere contouren

and others–he was dedicated to the particular experience of the marginalized

to ‘smoulder a mobile furnace’

A Talk on Rhyme Orchard "To have the idea ofDavid Brazil In A Talk on Rhyme, a text distilled from a lecture given in 2014, poet David Brazil reflects on rhymes emergence, progress, inoperativity, and prospect. The Talk is supplemented by an essayistic bibliography on subjects ranging from classical prosody to American folk music, via writings on and by poets long dead whose names are obvious: Saint Paul, Dickinson, Herbert, Spicer, Hlderlin, Dante, OHara.