[New-Poetry] Goetsch's greed

[Bob Grumman]

>>> "[Poetry] still has to give the reader pleasure; it has to compel rather 
>>> than confuse," Douglas Goetsch said in describing his fellow American 
>>> poets, who often work to create ambiguity. "I hope American poetry is 
>>> done with the cult … It may be a mystery, but not a puzzle."

Sounds like Goetsch never experienced the triumph of solving a puzzle.  Not 
that any good poem should only give an engagent a chance at that, and not 
that every good poem needs to, but calling for the elimination of poems that 
do strikes me like calling for the elimination metaphor.

But, yes, yawn.

--Bob