Thank you for your comment! I agree, "baloney is just baloney. " I want to shout with force of belief that sometimes speaking plainly so your readers can connect with you is more important that sounding smart.
I'm all for using the appropriate words, but not so obscure as to be incomprehensible.

Yay editing! So true.

I hear what you mean about falling in love with what you've written. Someone said about editing, "kill your darlings." We have to chop up our efforts and slice them apart to make them better. I think we forget that we're not only writing for ourselves, we're writing for other people to read our stuff and accept our images. We write to show others what we see/feel/experience and what we read as clear others may not. Our efforts should craft our language so it is received well. That means our convoluted word flow and image may not be effective and needs to change no matter how attached we've become to it. Good point!

By older school do you mean Romantics? Shakespearean? lyrical like troubadours? spoken heroic couplets for the oral tradition? Maybe Donne? Yeats?

Pound is an accessible starting point; I think the doorway for today's poetry. We fight attention, video, gifs, art, porn so diverse every fantasy is a few clicks away. Our words have to overcome all that dopamine (yes, poetry can work as Nike ads) , it has to produce MOAR dopamine than readers get elsewhere. Pound is great because he is merciless and were most people to follow his rules poetry would be so much more meaningful and relatable.

After we move through Pound, I think we can move deeper into structure, sensation, and sound.

I'm not sure what you see me doing for "that girl in Thailand." My goal is to exploit my training at university for the benefit of others. Maybe talking about an explication?

Oh god yes. The sycophantic simpering drives me nuts. I feel bad being critical sometimes, but I honestly do it in the hopeful affectionate goal that it helps them improve.

HAHAHA, "insincere blathering about my brilliance!" Feels good for a few times, then when nothing of substance is said you're like, "huh? did you even read it?"

Thanks again!