Good poetry does the opposite of “poetic” things to me Good poetry: uses words to rip away verbal lenses and direct attention to wondrous-banal pre-verbal experiences that I’ve become blind to “Poetic” things: fully obscures what I can partly see with thick verbal theater
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Good poetry: “look at that TV screen reflected in that drop of condensation” Intentional theater: “To see the world in a grain of sand...” Failed expressionism: “The sunset evokes an intense, richly textured tapestry of poignant emotions”
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