Kasey Mohammad has some very good things to say about Ron Silliman's Test of Poetry. After some sleep and thought—mostly sleep—I'd like to explore a little further some of the ideas there. For an glimpse of the direction in which I'm thinking, here are a couple of pieces from Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats (JVC is J. V. Cunningham):
JVC
He concentrated, as he ought,
On fitting language to his thought
And getting all the rhymes correct,
Thus exercising intellect
In such a space, in such a fashion,
He concentrated into passion.
Barren Leaves
Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling:
Wet dreams, wet dreams, in libraries congealing.
It may be the weekend before I get to it, as it involves information theory and the rest of the quote from Wordsworth.
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