'I'm the kind of critic who Gioia complains is ill equipped to assess
innovations in contemporary poetry because my tastes are based in part
on the "antiquarian assumptions" of Modernism, which "reflect a
culture without radio, talking films, television, videocassettes,
computers, cell phones, satellite dishes, and the Internet."'
Ex-*cuse* me???
The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster,
Made with no loss of time,
A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster
Or the "sculpture" of rhyme.
Dominic
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