I could spend more time on this one than I have, but I am content with the strangeness of the images. What you say about this type of poetry applies also to certain fantasy novels I have read -- I don't know what the "mean" but they are somehow profound through the imagery that speaks more to the heart and intuition than directly to the logic of the mind.
I love the simple and elegant structure of this sentence: “but his dense poetry in the high modern style has little purchase on the stripped-down free verse that dominates academic poetry in America these days.
I could spend more time on this one than I have, but I am content with the strangeness of the images. What you say about this type of poetry applies also to certain fantasy novels I have read -- I don't know what the "mean" but they are somehow profound through the imagery that speaks more to the heart and intuition than directly to the logic of the mind.
I love the simple and elegant structure of this sentence: “but his dense poetry in the high modern style has little purchase on the stripped-down free verse that dominates academic poetry in America these days.
Some ten dollar words there!