Michael, I’m glad you find something of interest in the feature. My own take on this is that I agree with you when you say:
“The academy is always a step or few behind. But most ongoingly neglected areas are neglected for intelligible reasons - e.g. they are not self-identified except as loose associations of isolatoes without any real community of vision, or they disdain self-articulation or promulgation of a poetic, or they've never thought about it and couldn't express it if they tried, or they don't have much engagement either with or against other artistic movements or manifestoes that ARE on the academy's radar.”
This is, indeed, the situation that faces us today. I suppose what the feature is about, is not so much gainsaying this, but to emphasise that a too prescriptive approach to what should and should not be regarded as eligible avant-garde poetry is unhealthy for the art--if one can still refer to poetry as an art without seeming too naïve, that is.
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