Right, there are exceptions, as I mentioned. Welish and Wright, too.
Through I think Silliman relies on something akin to a move more than,
oh, Hejinian.
Are these lines dull because of the moves, or are the poets dull?
Well, one thing is that most of these moves are about lines; some are
rhetorical figures, others aren't. And the examples of compound nonce
words aren't; they're just two words run together.
And the example of illogical causation doesn't seem to be causation.
So does that make it illogical?
Here's a longer sample from the "illogical causation" poet:
http://www.typomag.com/issue06/mark.html
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