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I think I have come much closer to understanding the connections between form and social and political life... having yet again read over the early 20th century debates. This chapter by Trotsky is worth reading... http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lit_revo/ch05.htm Marxist do not dismiss form but assign to form an essential vital importance. But reading over this article I am reminded again how much poverty of thought is allowed by the theorist of Futurist poetics in the early 20th century. Today it is not possible to think form on the grounds given by theorist of form such as Victor Shklovsky. It is no longer possible to think form on the grounds provided by Kant as the pure empty form of space and time, a priori. There is no such thing as the pure empty form of space since space is made along with matter and the pure empty form of time is at best, nonsense, since it is n onsense to have a pure empty form of time, a priori. But today, I am struck by the far greater understandings of form available by theorists such as Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou, as that which is non-formal as the potential to create form. This is probably a small book... but different forms are created by women poets and LGBT poets. These forms cannot be ruled by the Kantian a priori legal claims to proper form. -- BLOG http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com.au/