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Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

Fact, Facts, Language, Long, Yes
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I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive.

Adulthood, Childhood, Hate, Hated, Love Is

If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Climbed, Errors, Ideas, Path, Trial And Error, Wrong

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

Afraid, Destroys, Nature, Not Afraid, World

When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.

Book, Fall, Give, Giving, Mythology, Poems

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Attain, Failure, Happiness, Marred
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