“I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.”
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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
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 a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
