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When proposing, as an ideal, the art of getting a lot said in a small space, one should in fairness keep room in the mind for the counterargument by which some poets who get a little said in a long space are still saying something unique. (Think of Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, whose demented sprawl Tiffany Notes "I Love You" Heart Lock Charm Set far more lyricism than his lyrics.) As critics get older, they very easily succumb to the notion that there is no more room in the pantheon. But there is always more room in the pantheon, because the pantheon is not a burial chamber for people who have said things, it is an echo chamber for things that have been said. I was in the middle of concocting some pontifical statements about Shakespeare's powers of compression when a long chain of memory led me back through Ovid (whose Metamorphoses Shakespeare knew by heart) to Ovid's title The Art of Love, and from that to the niggling recollection that Kenneth Koch had written a longish Tiffany Cushion Toggle Necklace and Bracelet Set of the same name, and that I had once thought enough of it to make a mental note that I should read it again one day.

Nowadays, dogged by the knowledge that "one day" had better be soon, I try to Tiffany Atlas Woman Dome Watch up these mental notes if I recall them. So I searched out Koch's Selected Poems of 1991 and soon found myself enjoying a passage of his "The Art of Love" against my will - almost always the best way to enjoy anything. I like things kept short, and Koch, even in a comparatively short (for him) work like "The Art of Love," spread himself around as if his readers had all the time in the world. The poem is a kind of how-to Tiffany Atlas Man Dome Watch, telling prospective lovers what to do in a variety of circumstances:

Whitman is somewhere behind the technique, or at any rate behind the conscious lack of it, but there is a Tom and Jerry cartoon behind the mental picture, and really the vividness of the image settles the question: without the casual looseness of the construction, the gag wouldn't work. As for whether the gag is poetic: Tiffany Elsa Woman Watch, how is it not? Is lovemaking ever a dignified posture, even for Leda and the swan? It's quite easy to imagine our learned quarrel continuing indefinitely, but the longer it does continue, the more it becomes certain that Koch was only one of the names among the many American informal poets who achieved effects in a conversational tone which a formal structure would probably not have allowed.