Poetry can be entertaining, it can be written with an astonishing clarity, I don’t know why it has to be the other way, but it is. Poetry is like sitting in a stuffy room with the windows down. And very little is occurring to let in any air, any light. It could be that the field has simply drawn the worst of the practitioners. It seems so easy to call yourself “a poet.” There’s very little to do once you’ve assumed your stance. There’s a reason why many people don’t read poetry. The reason is that the stuff is badly and limply done. Perhaps the energetic creators have gone into music or prose
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