News at Eleven: [Billy] Collins said he sees a good poem

as an eye chart. "A big E that everyone can see. As you read down, you get to some part of illegibility. (The poem) makes no demands at first, making a few statements that are inarguably true--sitting there looking at a hibiscus--but by the middle and toward the end, we've drifted into much more mysterious and complex and tricky waters.

from UALR Public Radio: Poet Keeps It Simple--Sort Of

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