My Response

I find that Harry Matthews likes to keep the subject of his poems vague. This makes you have to assume a context for what he writes. You have to think, "What situation would this story fit into?" If you don't think that way at all, his poems do not make sense at all, though it's still hard for me to understand the significance when you put them into context.

MacLow is not a poet to me. I believe poetry has meaning. That's my opinion. Most of his poems look like stuff I'd type if I fell asleep on my keyboard and had a nightmare. Then he has some that quite obviously don't even follow basic sentence structure. He's written others that seem to take random sections of writings and censor them out like we did, but without leaving behind any sorts of ideas.