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Ira Lightman
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November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Theodore Enslin manages a peculiar trick with the Creeleyesque line here, somehow denser than the typical Creeley en pointe. Its vocabulary could be too much from the "well-made" poem. /
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Early Carl Rakosi (1903-2004). Spare syntax and Tetris blocky swivel of WCW or Oppen (vs the Tudor sonority of Zukofsky). The vocabulary is baroquer, even though TSE or Stevens' pentameter is definitely broken with.

Ditto early Cid Corman. By and large C and R jettison baroque later.
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Poems by Gael Turnbull
October 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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September 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
That would be a sort of comfort. Sadly. I feel it's a dunciad
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
To get a theatre critic to review "a fierce polemic - written in the railway-train rhythm of rollicking anapaestic heptameters" may betray the inability to tell a tetrameter from one's botthole
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM