>Poetry has gone from being something that you did in order to Write Your Name Large Across the Sky and sound your barbaric yawp and generally Shake Things Up to a very carefully gated medium that requires years of study and apprenticeship in order to produce meticulous, perfect, golden lines that up to ten people will ever voluntarily read.
Same with literature in general. MFA culture has ruined the literary world.
>>9364331
Holy shit that is a terrible sentence.
>>9364331
>ten people
Gee, I wonder how he got this very specific figure.
Oh, wait. He thinks reductionism is a legitimate point.
Hang yourself by the throat you espouse turds from.
The joke's on OP, not even ten people will voluntarily read this shit thread.
Ben Lerner is a huge faggot and you should feel ashamed for marketing his existence
Expressionism versus Formalism. Immanence versus Emergence. Spirit versus Matter. And so and so forth. Look it up.