A Poet Reflects

“The New Formalists have a problem.  They think, for the most part, that the poem fits the form.  The Old Formalists knew better—they knew the form had to fit the poem.  Big difference.
—Charles Wright, from “Bytes and Pieces” in Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews (The University of Michigan Press, 1998)

“The New Formalists have a problem.  They think, for the most part, that the poem fits the form.  The Old Formalists knew better—they knew the form had to fit the poem.  Big difference.

—Charles Wright, from “Bytes and Pieces” in Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews (The University of Michigan Press, 1998)

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