7.08.2013
information please
It’s not that the poetry was prose that was the problem. Good prose can equal or even exceed poetry on many levels. The problem was that this particular prose was unwilling to give up its inherent attachment to information: prose with its natural empathy for the reader’s need to know more. Poetry is always too ready to ignore the reader’s need for information.
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I'm currently reading Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic Canticle, a poem saturated with information. A model, perhaps, for what you're after....
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