Comment on Harold Norse poetry collection says a lot about poetry gatekeepers.

I recently heard a poem by the late Harold Norse read aloud at a poetry reading over the past weekend.

And I just read this comment about a Norse anthology on Amazon. Here it is:
"I have a biased insight on why Norse is not better known. His style is one of "common everyday speech" as championed by Norse's "teacher and father" William Carlos Williams. It's a valid style, the vernacular opera style of poetry (including Walt Whitman and the Beat Generation too). But is it ultimately less poetry than prose? Prosaic statement, plodding the pavement, rather than soaring aloft airborne into truer poetry with its images, complexities, dynamisms, controlled-and-creative? Perhaps truer poetry is more-well, poetic than Norse's usual statements: editorials scene-sketches reportages reminiscences etc."

I'll omit the commenter's name here. But his relatively strict-constructionist view of poetry, written five years ago, is pretty much the prevailing one these days.