Poetry used to have rhyme and rhythm: the reason both words ... larky rhymes and snarky rhymes that asked bombs to fall on Slough as “It isn’t fit for humans now.” There were sorrowful ...

I discovered that some shiso, which a kind neighbor offered me last spring, and which seemed a failed experiment by fall, had only been ... and particularly writing poems. In an often-furious ...

The full-throated music of the poem might have a similar effect on the reader. The cascading rhymes and trippy images conjure a kind of aesthetic rapture that’s not so different from falling in ...