Another good reaction to Ron Silliman's Test of Poetry, this time from Josh Corey. Josh mentions Zukofsky's A Test of Poetry—an instructive comparison is to W. D. Snodgrass's De/Compositions, in which he demonstrates the craft in many vastly different kinds of poetry by showing how disastrously wrong it can go.
Blogged from email, so there's no title.
Update: Tim Yu also weighs in. Tomorrow I join them. And since I did this on my computer, there's a title now.
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