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I wonder about this too much, its giving me a mental cramp, because it seems to me, approaching 'the problem' requires a strategy, which begs for definition of the problem, which reveals more than one problem. I'd like to knock them all out with one flyswatter, and get on with writing and reading but the problem has become more interesting to me than my own stuff lately, and most of the stuff called poetry I come across. I call that problem, 'the poet has mistakenly assumed that I am interested in this from the get go and has done nothing to earn my interest problem'-- As a reader, my demands are and should be multiple and relentlessly so, I want to know that what I'm reading is worth the thought I am going to invest, but the poetry market is flooded with writers who seem, to me, to resent the cherishable fact of good, relentless taste.

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by Jayne on June 1 2007