Writing Problems: Simplicity and Difficulty

Mingus, Caponegro, Whitman, Buson, Hill, Morrison, Williams, Gilbert, Crane, Melville

Are poems simple or difficult? Should they be one or the other? If readers find a poem is it because the poems are either simple or difficult? Are simple poems preferable to difficult poems in the marketplace? At readings? What is the social function of a simple poem or a difficult poem? What are the arguments to produce and read either?

These questions …