It's going back a bit (2012, 2014), but I still think Johannes Göransson's reflections on what he calls the "too much" argument are pertinent.  If only to suggest that it isn't self-evident in what way a large mass of poetry presents a problem.


" the use of anti-kitsch rhetoric in modern poetry (and by modern I mean from Wordsworth through Pound up to Perloff and beyond). The most dominant strain these days seem to be the “there’s too much” argument: there’s too much poetry being published, and too much bad poetry, so we can’t keep up, we can’t read it all, and most importantly (the subtext sometimes, sometimes just the text) we can’t police what’s good and bad.

Basically, it’s the anti-kitsch critique. Modern technology has brought poetry to the masses, now how do we make sure that they have taste? How do we keep this, what Joyelle has called the “plague ground” of contemporary poetry-writers/readers from forsaking our Taste, our narratives, our ideas about what poetry should be."



This probably doesn't make much sense out of context, but a search of the blog Montevidayo on the term "plague ground" brings up lots of material.


http://montevidayo.com/?s=plague+ground

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