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Originally posted by nyctom:
So Landrum any poetry not a part of the Whitmanesque tradition you find anemic and unmemorable? If that is the case, I'm sorry. You're missing a lot of good stuff.
But hey--de gustibus and all that jazz.
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I'd be interested, nytcom, to read some of the poets you like who don't follow the general strategies I've discussed. Give me some names or titles.
I teach poems like "Thank You" by Heather Nagami, an ethnic poem that does not draw on metrics in any way. And while it is good, I think the text doesn't give it enough of a dynamic for it to endure as a work of art for very long. It is admirable but not enduring and many poems are like this. I like to think it is the lack of poetic dynamic, the lack of poetic energy in the poem, that does this. And I can't help but think the Whitmanesque tradition provides more poetic language than just the poetry of flat statement.