Perloff: "[W]hat is really 'easy,' in the context of the present, is to write little epiphany poems in free verse, detailing a 'meaningful experience.' This creates an artifact, poem as object, remnant of a process called 'writing poetry.'"
Retallack picks up the baton: "It is finished, fixed, mimetic, mirror iamge of things jelled in our habits of thought and perception. The reader is pampered, protected from uncertainties, unpredictabilities--the untidiness [...] and excitement of process. Like most of ordinary language, this poetry is designed to smooth out irregularities, to move us from one word to the next with a minimum of resistance."