One poet appraises another

… Poetry Daily Prose Feature - David Yezzi: The Perfect Moods of William Logan. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 "My own imaginative life's lived almost entirely in poetry," Logan has said. "I'm merely a poet who has opinions and has sometimes been paid to publish them." Logan's poems do not serve at the pleasure of his criticism, but the separate activities are related in that both involve judgment. The aesthetic discriminations honed in reviewing will sometimes but not always inform the aesthetic choices made when writing poems. Having said that, the poet is less conscious than the critic. He is a musician at heart, more ready than not to break the rules to please his ear. Sense for the poet can have much to do with sound!