"I find ampersands in poems are often 'compensatory gestures' along with
centering text, beginning of line caps in non formal work, font changes,
over-short lines, strange tabulation, mid-word enjambment, stepped verses.
Most of these can earn their worth at times, but are mostly used by bad
poets as wishful disguise."
Oh get over yersel', big man! This sounds like a massively ill-informed
dismissal of strategies common to a multiplicity of innovative poetries to
me and, by implication, of those poetries themselves. Won't do, really won't
do at all.
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