Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

“A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of conte…”

“One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned w…”

“Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.”

“In the final analysis, it is not critics who create literary canons, it is othe…”