06-25-2013, 09:31 AM
(06-25-2013, 09:16 AM)rayheinrich Wrote:Efficiency and short are two different things. If a poem loses a subject, becomes redundant, or progresses into seething goop then I see your point. If readers are lazy and have A.D.D. like I do well that's another story.(06-25-2013, 06:16 AM)Brownlie Wrote: Was Emily dickinson a genius for her formal deviations or was she sloppy?Both
But dubbing her a genius transformed a lot of that sloppiness to genius.
Fine with me cause I love short. Wish more writers would learn that
from her.

