"line" versus "sentence" as the formal basis of poetic language

Modern and especially contemporary American avant-garde poetry, especially that following the modernism of William Carlos Williams, has generally repudiated the sentence as a basis of poetic language, preferring the line as its central formal feature. No one has stated this preference more adamantly than Robert Creeley, whose poetic form descends directly from that of Williams.

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