Speaking for myself, as a formalist - - a poet who focuses on CRAFT - - the poetry books that delight me the most are the ones in which poets have used formal verse in inventive ways and have mastered rhetoric and metaphor. When I see flat-footed prose masquerading as "poetry," I will close the book.
Speaking for myself, as a formalist - - a poet who focuses on CRAFT - - the poetry books that delight me the most are the ones in which poets have used formal verse in inventive ways and have mastered rhetoric and metaphor. When I see flat-footed prose masquerading as "poetry," I will close the book.