David - I just saw your comment and I agree with you.
At first, I'd said that I don't think it's helpful (right, perhaps, but not helpful) for formalist poets to insist that free verse isn't verse at all (as LT would have it), but I deleted that part of my original post, since I thought it was more important just to correct some of the more obvious mischaracterizations of Turco's position.
btw, I'm still not cetain all posting understand the distinction between blank verse and free verse.
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