Am about to embark on a read of The Maximus Poems and am wanting to get a decent grasp on Olson's notion of Projective Verse, how it's distinct from Levertov's Organic Form and "free verse" (which isn't free) more generally, and what this all means for the function of line breaks, punctuation, and spacing of the poems.
If the unit is the breath and the grammar is the connection of perception to perception, what does that have to do with the shape of the poem? What is gained by breaking lines, of the incessant enjambment, of throwing words into different shapes and spaces across the page? What, then, is the function of form as a heuristic for meaning and for the act of reading w/r/t projective verse?
It would, of course, help if the poet himself weren't obscurantist in his theory.