for want of a pen

Sometimes I think I became a writer solely because I love holding a nice pen.

linear entity

The poetic line resists the fetish for a sentence.

enjambment mojo

Nothing is more fetishized in free verse poetics than enjambment.

nuance, not new instance

To find the nuance in an emotion/notion, rather than a new instance of artifice. Too often the avant-garde is interested in the latter. Their magazines are full of language gadgetry, like the latest Sharper Image catalog, they have bought into the capitalist fetish for the new thing-a-ma-jig or the slick design of an otherwise common device.