The Type-A Poet did not graduate from a Poetry Assertiveness Training Workshop. She invented it. Writes with a contempt for moderation, for boundaries, for anything that stands in the way of writing and publishing. Enough confusion of my own, I've got. For the Type-A Poet, writing a poem is no longer a communion with the Muse, a sacred engagement with the wellsprings of Art.
Writing becomes routine, like doing the dishes.
The prolific propensities of the Type-A Poet have resulted in the routinization of poetry. Robert Frost once commented that writing free form verse was like playing tennis with the net down. The Type-A Poet doesn't care if the net's down. The Type-A Poet doesn't care if there's a net at all. And, one might add, to hell with quality control.