Goad27 Jan 2004

Dark Angel's use of language shows prodigious knowledge of the rules of English. He can describe shit in sentences so elegantly and wittily constructed that I--and I haven't the slightest hint of a scatological fetish anywhere in my being--enjoy reading about shit. His limericks are, in fact, limericks. His sonnets are, in fact, sonnets -- breaking the rules only purposely, and to great effect generally. His limericks aren't limericks and his sonnets sonnets by accident, or even because he's talented (and he is talented), but because he crafts his language. He's certainly mastered and has a full awareness of rhythm and rhyme...in short, he's absolutely the wrong person to cling to in your pursuit of this benighted notion of yours that you're a foot soldier in the freedom fighting poetry army battling to save the world from dogmatism and categorization by eschewing all technique.