I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.