thousands of lines of me

Its critical rhetoric couched in politics and theory, language poetry was perhaps the most self-indulgent of all poetry movements.

twisted types

Engaging in a little genre gerrymandering, are we?

different standards

It was a poem manufactured to meet precise critical standards; thus it failed the test of art.

to usurp the author

The attraction of critical theory: One can usurp the place of the author without having had to produce a primary text.