Erudite allusions

I intend to buy a book of Rachel Flynn's poems when I get the chance...I read an interview with her this evening and am still twirling around in my mind something she said about poetry:

"Poetry, for me, ultimately does not allow a refusal of what is genuine. I’m not interested in word play for the sake of cleverness or a pile of erudite allusions to suggest how learned the writer might be."

I find this part particularly agreeable. And I was interested in the fact that she grew up in a rural town in Indiana, like me.