I am sorry if you cannot see in these poems what you call “imaginative and imagistic writing with voice, sound and many other tools in poetry”.
Poems they most certainly are, not prose, at least in my book, and use the resources of language in rich and often subtle ways. They are full of vivid and imaginative details and employ a range of registers (is that what you mean by “voice”?) to powerful expressive effect. Also, many are organized according to a more elaborate architecture than one sometimes sees these days.
Some of these features are exemplified in the passages included in the article. Buy the book; read the poems, Tom.
Clive Watkins
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