George Oppen defines poetry as a process of thought. I'd say it's a process of resistance to the poem's own thinking as a form wishing to complete itself, to make a circle, to be complete. No resistance = no thought, no thought that could be called one's own, that could matter as one's own. And of course there has to be form—inherited or otherwise—for there to be resistance. Difficult to open or break a window that isn't there. (John Taggart)
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