If I have any caveat, it'd be that I (obviously) don't think mixing free and formal verse is a weakness per se,
We ain't gonna go dere. It's too early in the morning for a knock-down drag-out. Hee! (But we will go there eventually, I'm sure... my "ten commandments of poetry" post from a few years ago, which I still haven't unearthed, is one of the most controversial I've ever put up.)
Review of Bent Under Night forthwith-- it's one of the two books I have slated for review that I just cannot. choose. one. excerpt. from. (Nathaniel Mackey's Splay Anthem is the other, but since that one's due back under pain of me never being able to borrow from Westerville again, I forced a choice last night. I own BUN now, thanks again!, so no pressure. whee!)
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Date: 2008-03-27 01:04 pm (UTC)We ain't gonna go dere. It's too early in the morning for a knock-down drag-out. Hee! (But we will go there eventually, I'm sure... my "ten commandments of poetry" post from a few years ago, which I still haven't unearthed, is one of the most controversial I've ever put up.)
Review of Bent Under Night forthwith-- it's one of the two books I have slated for review that I just cannot. choose. one. excerpt. from. (Nathaniel Mackey's Splay Anthem is the other, but since that one's due back under pain of me never being able to borrow from Westerville again, I forced a choice last night. I own BUN now, thanks again!, so no pressure. whee!)