Look at the CIA involvement in modern art in the 1960s, or was it the 1950s. If it's also true of language poetry, it would explain its rise and success within the universities etc.
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Kent Johnson wrote:
My half-serious theory is that the CIA's handling of Language poetry as a quasi-Congress for Cultural Freedom tool started with the AT&T Super Bowl ad, in 1998, starring Charles Bernstein.
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