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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Visual


A good poem should be visual

Lorca knew this and Allen Ginsberg

Pere Gimferrer thought so too

Not to mention William Carlos Williams

with the red wheelbarrow and white chickens

and the purple striped nightgowns imagined by Wallace Stevens

I think Baudelaire had a strong visual imagination too

But I do not

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is sight more important than sound, for poems?

Jonathan said...

Depends on who you ask