Quincy adds a valid qualification which meshes easily enough with Michael's original review. Lerner does not seem a particularly sharp theorist of the post-modern; he is, rather, a practitioner of it.
What saddens me are readers who come to poetry looking for truth, beauty, art and something so simple as joy in language, but instead they find Lerner. I've got three degrees in English lit and currently teach it, but when I look at the dominance of the post-modern in the contemporary academy, I doubt I would make the same choices today that I did back then.
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