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Arnie Sabatelli's avatar

Lovely. Erotic and “explicit” even--but so much more than that...and mostly a layering of metaphor, simile, fresh and original language...in short everything that makes poetry provoke emotion. I think Sharon Olds learned a lot from Rich in her book The Gold Cell, or maybe she was simply discovering similar territory--that evoked by writers like Ninn and so many others.

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Patris's avatar

Sensuality and poetry are one and the same, whatever the topic I think. Nature, war, life and death, but love - even unsentimentalized (maybe especially that), well, yes.

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