>>It's nice to see that there is so much healthy skepticism of a new and unnecessary label. Labels should be used sparingly, and should be descriptive in a meaningful way, which "Expansive" isn't. That label is just a gimmick by those who are concerned about PR.
I hate to agree with this, but I may have to. As I've said, I never much cared for it but was stuck with it when I had to re-edit Feirstein's book. Using a different "label" would have necessitated a change of title, and that would have been misleading, giving the indication that the book I edited was totally new. Still, "expansivist" is no more or less useful than "projectivist" or "vorticist" as a descriptive term; all it does is name a banner under which a group of poets have decided to rally (or who have been placed there by critics). We might say the same thing of "romantic," now that I think of it.
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