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Mark, I take your point but I’ve always seen contemporary experimentation operating almost exclusively under the auspices of postmodernism, as I think most people would these days. So to that extent, I suppose, “postmodernism” is the uneasy bedfellow of experimentation. Original Message: If I'm mistaken I apologize. But it's how I read the essay. I'm absolutely with him when he objects to poetry that comes out of theory rather than the other way around, and I've made myself unpopular in a lot of circles by saying do, and going beyond that to criticize the whole creative writing academic enterprise. But note that he repeatedly refers to "postmodernism" as if there were one kind only. It's his straw man and his bete noir. He's not saying that there are some versions of experimenatalism (synonymoous with postmodernism in his lexicon) that go too far, he's saying they all do.