If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
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The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.Robert Morgan
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
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The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
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All, however, is not bleak, ... For many years it was thought that early-stage ovarian cancer did not give symptoms. Several papers published in the past four to five years, however, have shown that 90 percent of women with early-stage ovarian cancer do have symptoms.
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The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
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With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
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