A Crisis of the Personal in Poetry?

I’ve been following some of Ron Silliman’s recent posts about the effect he and Gabe Gudding have been tracing of “McPoem”–cookie-cutter work based on personal experience churned out through the business of MFA programs–on the course of poetry in the past thirty years. Ron’s musings on Gudding seem to imply a strong connection between, “self-expression …

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