http://shortpoem.org/the-dreamer/ if compression is the first grace of style Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://shortpoem.org/the-dreamer/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Slack Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:40:17 +0000 http://shortpoem.org/the-dreamer/#comment-774 While I am no instructor of writing, nor author of poetic volumes, I must confess that this piece bothered me enough to leave this comment. Maybe I was so compelled because of its near-incoherence created by its minimalism. Or maybe because the event being described was thinly veiled by metaphor, but is nothing more than terse literary spectacle, which may or may not be thinly veiled compliment. While I am no instructor of writing, nor author of poetic volumes, I must confess that this piece bothered me enough to leave this comment. Maybe I was so compelled because of its near-incoherence created by its minimalism. Or maybe because the event being described was thinly veiled by metaphor, but is nothing more than terse literary spectacle, which may or may not be thinly veiled compliment.

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