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I, Reader: the Rise of Robo-Poetics
How Contemporary American Poets Are Denaturing the Poem, Part VIII
By JOAN HOULIHAN
[...] Could it be that such poems are written for the sole purpose of publication, for the credential check-off, for acceptance by a community of self-styled avant-gardists, for some status and standing in a field that offers little else by way of societal rewards? They are clearly not written for anyone's enjoyment, not for the readers' and especially not the for poets' who betray what talent they may have for the approbation of peers, who engage in the worst self-delusion: that they have something to say that can only be said in a poem. In all of this, the human reader doesn't count.

RoboReader is ready.
Buy book.
Insert here.
Scan. Repeat. Shred. Scan. Repeat. Shred.
Shred. Shred. Shred.

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