Well observed, Kent. You won’t get a reaction from some people here though, as they are quite polite here, and do most of their candid talking about things discussed online when they meet offline socially. They have too much to lose to be candid here.
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Kent Johnson wrote:
Someone needs to suggest sometime that the tsunami of professionalization and institutionalization of poetry over the past half century, say, has turned a major portion of English-language poets into privileged, bourgeois, backstabbing, and gossipy parasites with cushy jobs and travel perks.
And that to a great extent they love to talk about class because they know who they are (Lenin described them) and feel guilty about it.
Of course, I don't entirely except myself.
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