The next move is always the test.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.