- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
- Common Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
- Listens
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- Nov 07, 2020