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- High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
- I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain…
- I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
- I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which…
- Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate…
- From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into…
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