Hejinian said Language Poetry is not a style.
There are Language Poets, each with their own styles.
It's a matter of worldview & commitment, my friends.
It's not about to be co-opted.
Not by Jorie Graham & Helen Vendler, no way.
Actually that would be coming full circle, because
there are some similarities between the New Critics &
the Language Poets. Helen V. is a New Critic's critic.
Jorie G. is her protege. The autonomy of "Language"
as opposed to speech meets in Academia-Mandarin Central.
The radical Word meets the autonomous Poem
somewhere in late-20th Hahvahd Yahd (east of I-o-way).
- Henry
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