only to end up asking "What the hell was that all about?" is not a rewarding experience. Poets have a responsibility to communicate. Yoking together obscure references to impress a few peers is not the future of poetry. It's reasonable to argue that reading poetry should require analytical effort, but when words are tossed onto the page in such a way that they defy comprehension then it's small wonder that interest vanishes.from The Age: In a land of sweeping plains, poetry is hardly thriving
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