Poetics 2

"A tradition becomes inept when it blocks the nesessary conclusion; it says we have felt nothing, it implies others have felt more."
Creeley means simply that if the tradition of poetry leaves the reader feeling nothing, it has missed its mark and purpose.
"A poetry denies its end in any descriptive act."
Here is the flaw of many readers. To think the poet is simply giving a picture in the mind and nothing more. Of course a poem will give the reader a picture in the mind, but that is not the point.
"The process of definition is the intent of the poem."
A poem must define itself and be the object of the readers reation. The reader and the poem are defined when the energy of a poem is communicated. And the poem must be treated as an object that has been defined in and of itself, not a concept existing outside the poem.