[New-Poetry] A New Poetics Term, Maybe

[Bob Grumman]

Knowing how tend alwuz to make fun of my poetics terms, I was hesitant 
to float my latest through New-Poetry.  But I need help.  The coinage is 
"Eratotype."  Its meaning is "specific type of poem."  "Erato" because 
Erato is the muse of poetry and I couldn't think of anything else.  
"Type," of course, because it's a type of something.  The help I need is 
simply feedback.  If anyone knows of a word in use that means what 
eratotype means, terrific.  Or, if anyone can come up with a better 
term, I'll be glad to use it instead.

Sure, "type of poem" would be a reasonable possibility, but it's too 
general: it could mean just love poem.  "Poetic form" would do the trick 
if there weren't so many kinds of poems that don't really have forms. 

The reason I felt a need for the term is that I've been thinking about 
my current "poet's block."  It was different from my normal poet's 
block, which is just not being able to think of anything to write 
about.  My current problem is that I can't think of any "eratotype" to 
compose.  All the eratotypes I can think of seem dead to me.  In 
particular, I feel I've exhausted my own long-division poem eratotype.  
I am confident I could make good new ones but I wouldn't be doing 
anything interestingly new in them, I'd be repeating myself. 

Anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated.

--Bob