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Originally Posted by Norman Ball
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That sounds a bit deviant right there.
Doesn't true craft engender reticence and encourage subtlety and perhaps result in beauty no matter what the subject matter? And craft and intelligence can be as present in Free Verse as in Formal. It's the cancerous profusion of bad Free Verse that's harming poetry just as the florid growth of out-worn sentiment and empty form did a century ago. It is obviousness, not sex, that is the enemy of art and culture (as proved by Bill's mini-essay).