"The Machine of Poetry"

From an essay by Matthew Zapruder on the PowellsBooks.blog:

....The more poetry I read and wrote, the more clearly I saw that there was really no such thing as “poetic language.” The words in poems are for the most part the same as those we find everywhere else. The energy of poetry comes primarily from the reanimation and reactivation of the language that we recognize and know.... 

Read the full essay here.