Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Great Regulars: A monstrous poem for a monstrous subject:

reading this I wanted to be charmed, and really was in places. The first line's trochaic rhythm, for example, and the patterning and sheer density of sound and image are impressive. "This is not languish, not old money, soft and lawnlike" is a great line. On the other hand a phrase like "divide that/disgust by a 30-year maturity" is emptily rhetorical, and the middle section of the poem, with its sprawling syntax, is a slightly rickety bridge between the strong opening and the climactic close.

from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Commodity

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