Nope, Maryann and Michael, I don't agree. I like some poems better than other poems. I think the following poets wrote nothing but shit: Hart Crane, Allan Ginsberg, Ted Hughes (pretty well), Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery... You see, I prefer some poets to others. About these guys and gals I have nothing to say. Unless I like SOMETHING in a poem I don't want to comment. If it is just bad, bad, bad then others will say so. It MIGHT be that some Spherean seemed to have a high reputation and I thought ALL the rest of you were mistaken. But that hasn't happened yet.
Oh, and Walt Whitman. I forgot about him. Every now and again he ALMOST says something good. But he never QUITE manages it. I'd trade everything he ever wrote for the libretto to The Mikado.
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