Regardless of whether conceptual poetry is “useful” to you or me, it is useful and interesting to many. It isn’t simply an import of an old idea into poetry. The ‘conceptual poets’ seem to have created something different from ‘conceptual art’. And it relates visual/conceptual art to the literary in a new way that is relevant to the digital age. It is smart, meta, and engaged with the contemporary world. Too often, poetry is frightened of and alienated from the contemporary world and cultivates poetic convention.
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