Allusion in poetry

[milo]

I don't remember mentioning Stein though I may have, I hope it was something clever. I have not read Lawrence's book on criticism. I remember you mentioning it several years back and I read the first few pages but never finished it.

Story telling - imo - is the most powerful and important human ability of all and certainly you interweave quite a bit into your comments so that is more than welcome.

I don't want to get caught up on the for me-ism - if it doesn't bother you or anyone else, let's just drop it.

Something about what you wrote here makes me think about white space or negative space and not just literal white space in poetry or negative space in art but the figurative white space of the elements we leave out if that makes any sense to you