[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[jforjames at aol.com]

David, I'm happy to have this quote. When encountering one of those gauzy poems full of abstractions 
and conventionally poetic images, I have stock line..."What this poem needs is a toaster."
Finnegan







"Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion,


By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle 
undismay'd,



Bluff'd not a bit by drain-pipe, gasometers, artificial fertilizers,


Smiling and 
pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,


She's here, 
install'd amid the kitchen ware!"




--Whitman.? "Song of the Exposition"

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