Nate, others -- there's a fascinating and I'd say propitious article in
_Critical Quarterly_ by Simon Jarvis, called 'Prosody as Cognition'.
Might crack open a view on this. A part of Jarvis's broader project to
repudiate the Platonic exception of poetry from -episteme-. He says,
roughly, I forget now the exact expression: if poets abandon altogether
the stringencies of conventional prosody, this is because they have
abandoned a part of -life- also. He absolutely would apply that comment
to several of the poets mentioned in your post, Nate -- or at least, he
couldn't very well maintain that he had meant not to.
As counterexample he points at John Wilkinson, writer of what he calls
"unfree verse".
It's in the issue edited by David Trotter.
Best, K
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