[New-Poetry] terror dactyls

[Bob Grumman]

John Jeffrey wrote:
> You're right, of course, in yawning.  It is all about the poem's 
> worth.  I guess I'm just sick of all the stretching of terms to the 
> point where they're useless.  And it's not just sonnets, it's poetry 
> itself.  It's capital A Art itself.  I think instead I'll go read a 
> Shakespeare's villanelle, or maybe I'm in the mood for Basho's heroic 
> couplets.

Ah, yes, Basho's heroic couplets--especially his one-line heroic 
couplets.  No one did them better.

--Bob