[JoeAltmaier]

That's all important, if he were writing documentation or a technical manual.

That the reader is required to make some effort to un-knot the language is a legitimate tool of the poet. Some are too impatient, used to sound-bytes from a tv personality perhaps, and won't open them selves to something novel or evocative. It has to 'make sense' grammatically and semantically. Poetry is often neither of those.

[DontchaKnowit]

Okay but he is a novelist. I didnt sign up for a book full of confusing necrophelia poetry.

Ultimately this is all a matter if taste

[JoeAltmaier]

Exactly. Not a matter of an incompetent writer who just won't say things plainly and grammatically.

[DontchaKnowit]

Okay sure. I do not have a problem with his skill, but rather his style.

[JoeAltmaier]

Tortured to be sure!

Not a fan myself.