Word: ownwork
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...wasdetectable in the platitudes, the easy jokes andthe strings of parallel declarations whichinterfered in many poems with the directperception, the simple truths honed fromcomplexity, so present in "Straits." Koch seemsvery much to want not only his poetry, butpoetry to be accessible to everyone, andalmost immediately accessible: in reducing his ownwork to homilies and jokes, Koch showed the sametemperament that allowed him to turn the Stevenspoem into a cartoon, sacrificing what hederisively referred to as "meaning" for what heseemed to consider counter to it, "pleasure...
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