The Great American Poetry Bake-Off: Second Series
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1982. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Above all qualities, I desire energy in poetry. I am unhappy with work that reports in enervated and boring fashion the interminable prosaic actions of "I." Also suspect are poems that editorialize; I prefer to work out implicit meanings for myself. Poems that sentimentalize over children, dead relatives, lost youth, primitive folk gone sour, and slippery nature-transcendentalisms dismay me-..... More
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