One Does Not Become A

The Composer Does Not Want The Self-sufficiency Of A Richly Complex Text: He Or She Wants To Feel That The Text Is Something In Need Of Musical Setting.

One Problem We Face Comes From The Lack Of Any Agreed Sense Of How We Should Be Working To Train Ourselves To Write Poetry.

Free Verse Seemed Democratic Because It Offered Freedom Of Access To Writers. And Those Who Disdained Free Verse Would Always Be Open To Accusations Of Elitism, Mandarinism. Open Form Was Like Common Ground On Which All Might Graze Their Cattle - It Was Not To Be Closed In By Usurping Landlords.

Generally Speaking, Rhyme Is The Marker For The End Of A Line. The First Rhyme-word Is Like A Challenge Thrown Down, Which The Poem Itself Has To Respond To.

Hearing That The Same Men Who Brought Us 'south Park' Were Mounting A Musical To Be Called 'the Book Of Mormon,' We Were Tempted To Turn Away, As From An Inevitable Massacre.