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It distresses me to say this, but in a certain sense I like it. I think as a torrent of rhetoric it has force. I can hear in my mind the accent of a particularised voice. I don't think it's entirely shapeless, the prose paragraphs seem to end in the right places, rhythmically, the writer seems aware enough of breath that one would be able to read the poem aloud from the text without having to create pauses where none are indicated, the parts in verse mostly (but not all) seem to fall to their line ends ok. Having said that, I think, yes, it's rhetoric, not poetry, but at least it has some character of voice, it feels as if it was written by a living someone, I've seen a lot worse. The write-up about it that Anny quoted is indeed truly awful!!! (Hey, btw, I only discovered this the other day, T.S.Eliot used to do the blurbs for Faber and Faber poetry and poetry related books himself. So, for instance, he did the ones for The White Goddess and The Hawk in the Rain. I likes it!) Best Dave 2008/5/7 Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>: > Today's poem from the Poetry Daily website, www.poems.com. A work of such transcendent badness I had to share it with all of you. And this pointless shapeless self-indulgent garbage is PRAISED by the cretins of the mainstream. > > http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=14006 > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk