Thanks for starting this thread, Chris. A fascinating subject.
Here is Timothy Steele, in
Missing Measures, commenting on the use that Charles Olson makes of the concept of organic form:
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Nature does not produce in free-form fashion. Its products exhibit definite and predictable formal characteristics [...] If the poet is like a tree whose fruits are poems (or like a gardener whose tomatoes, cabbages and carrots are poems), he presumably more resembles Wyatt writing sonnets, epigrams, and songs than Olson composing the Maximus Poems.
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