The Great Modern Poets

So I've got this pretty cool little book with selections from the "great" modern poets, like Keats, Plath, Ginsberg, Baxter, Dylan...those types, but sometimes the summaries of their lives and works in the beginning are just weird.

Beneath my nightlight tall

     a cheap chinese-stained glass

with flowers

I sit and read and read and read

 

I do not understand the thoughts of learnèd wo/men

     and a critic is a critic is a critic

by God

     but, by God, I’ll write what I please

 

and write and write and write

     my heinous declaration

of freedom

I cannot escape, breathing this Sartrerian air (of freedom)

 

No one told me it was there, floating

     on a yellow ten page breeze

like a leaf

and rippling and rippling and rippling

 

Across space time yard dogs flowers bars nets cement tumbles

     unmowed, a spiriting groove, locked up

and cabinets and cabinets and cabinets

for the sake of singularity