Though it may seem a long way from these language (I use the term in a
broad sense) poets to the various political and mainstream academic
schools, all three of these major current English language poetry
categories have in common that they produce poems with the implicit
preface, "Here is how you should write poetry." In other words, they
are lectures which are of no use to anybody. I must cede that at
least the language school's poems don't add the implicit afterword of
current political poems -- "And if you criticize that, you are a
clod," --- or of the academic ones -- "Can I have tenure now?"
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