more about the dead

Critics so out of touch with the contemporary they just go on elaborating obituaries.

time stamped

Where some see avant-garde and mainstream, I just see poets scrambling and scraping, trying to write poems that will stick beyond the contemporary.

bloodless

The anemic criticism of one who has clearly not read beyond the contemporaries.

in the muck

Whether send-up, satire, or snark, one has to care too much about contemporary culture to be a postmodernist.

comfortable bubble

A reader who never ventured out of the comfortable bubble of the contemporary.

act of disbelief

In contemporary society to write a poem is an act of disbelief.

all poems are political

In contemporary society, to write a poem is a political act.