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And Michael, surely you are just adding to the "considerable clatter" by this thread! You have perversely insured talk on the cinquain will continue into another week!
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How Foucaultan.
Michael Cantor: I don't know about hookers in Times Square. I've seen some since Times Square became a gaudy tawdry hell hole that I avoid at all costs--or at least some I have assumed were hookers--but certainly not the number when it was a tawdry hell hole in a much more interesting way. Ah, nostalgia!
Form is simply that: a form, a way to shape content. I can't see the point in the wholesale condemnation of entire form--a good poem can come in any imaginable form.
I think the problem with elevating a form at the expense of all other possible aspects of a poem--like, fer instance, the content--is that it turns the form into a
recipe. And all too often, when this has become the case, it feels like the resulting poem was written by a particularly tyrannical cook...