Any poetic approach emphasizing compression, economy, and the distillation of experience or meaning into minimal language. Forms like haiku, imagist poems, and epigrams exemplify condensed form through structural brevity, while individual poems in any form might achieve condensation through tight language and elimination of excess. The aesthetic values concentration over expansion, suggesting rather than explaining, implying rather than stating. Every word carries weight; every image serves essential purpose. Related to minimalism in poetry, condensed form challenges poets to achieve maximum resonance through minimal means.

Any poetic form emphasizing compression and economy: haiku, imagist poems, epigrams. Cuts away all non-essential elements. Related to minimalism in poetry. T.S. Eliot's editorial work on "The Waste Land" shows condensation in action. The challenge is maintaining richness while achieving brevity.