08-14-2023, 02:20 AM
I'm not serious about poetry. But I see something in it.
Bukowski didn't write free verse, he wrote short stories that look like poems, with poetry as a theme. His poems aren't great, and that's what makes them effective. He's casting a spell. When people argue that the best poetry is written the way he writes, they are defending their mediocrity. Charles Bukowski and Daniel Johnston cast spells. Everything in its Right place.
A. R. Ammons writes of change and flow, and his poems are free verse in the true sense of free and verse.
T. S. Eliot is full of formal poetry breaking. The Traditions trying to hold, trying to coexist, succeeding and failing at once.
Robert Frost is a sensitive old curmudgeon at age 20.
Bukowski didn't write free verse, he wrote short stories that look like poems, with poetry as a theme. His poems aren't great, and that's what makes them effective. He's casting a spell. When people argue that the best poetry is written the way he writes, they are defending their mediocrity. Charles Bukowski and Daniel Johnston cast spells. Everything in its Right place.
A. R. Ammons writes of change and flow, and his poems are free verse in the true sense of free and verse.
T. S. Eliot is full of formal poetry breaking. The Traditions trying to hold, trying to coexist, succeeding and failing at once.
Robert Frost is a sensitive old curmudgeon at age 20.