To put it another way, there is a desire to resist what you would call "national" poetry.

What the people call dramatic poetry is a collection of sermons.

"Melancholia drove me to those confessions we call poetry," he later wrote.

From him the style has been called bernesque poetry.

I think it's a little too much to call it poetry.

It ain't what I call proper poetry, if you understand me: just a bit of nonsense.

He is at the forefront of the movement sometimes called "linguistically innovative poetry".

"They are doing rap without music, but calling it poetry," he said.

Ambiguity and double meanings play an important role in what he calls "visual poetry".