On the other hand, I've seen and/or read any number of formalists who trash almost every free verse poem (exceptions seem to be made for friends and/or professional colleagues). Prejudice isn't a one-way street.
It's very difficult for me to take these discussions seriously, since "pomo" is always held up as this monolith seeking to destroy everything "traditional." Some of what is universally lumped under the disbaraging umbrella term "pomo" is useful (particularly--at least for me--in explicating power relationships within a particular group or society as revealed through their language and literature) and some of it is not useful or silly.
Really, how useful are these kind of absurd reductions and blanket dismissals? What have they led to? All I see are armed camps, each one tenaciously defending its "turf."
Yawn. No wonder I stopped reading theory--pomo, mo, and premo--a couple of years ago. Life's short, you know?
[This message has been edited by nyctom (edited September 20, 2006).]
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