I've touched on this before, but David Micah Greenberg does the hard work at Boston Review:
“Within any poem, how its substance is oriented toward the field of action is not predetermined and forms the core of its politics. At stake within each poem is how consciousness may be enlisted toward action…For some experimental poets, the aggressively apolitical in substance and practice is identical to political engagement…The left’s poetry is not always positioned to create space for experiences different from their own, to present or at least evoke the feeling of the differential texture of social experience, in order to counter those who would obliterate reality and human life when they do not serve them.”

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It is refreshing to read a well-written blog. Think I will be back to hang out sometimes.
Withal, somewhat awkwardly put.
Is the point that "conservative, traditional" poetry is more open to ambiguous interpretation of experience? This seems altogether roundabout and peculiar.
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