High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.