I have mixed feelings about MD. I bought the collected after liking some of his poems I saw around. A couple of thoughts for discussion
1. Do you think his poetry evolved at all? Apart from the intrusion of mortality into the topics. Maybe his career was too short. I had the impression that it emerged pretty much as it was to stay. Still 16 years isn't that long a publishing career
2. He has a habit, often in his best poems too, of having a concluding couplet wrap up. Maybe this stuck with me when I was reading as it occurs in the first two poems of the book Machines and Pentecost.
3. As important as the variety in the characters talking in the poem, maybe more so, is the variety in who is being addressed. The reader is put into the poem/drama by imagining what role they are playing.
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