Len: A pun made possible by the more or less strict form, but more than a pun: a suggestion that there's often more than a trivial analogy between fighting and fucking.
I count a poem a success when it follows an unexpected faultline through the heap of the language, and a transcendent success when that faultline through the heap of language turns out to parallel a faultline through the world that we're always hoping language can represent.
Richard
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