The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Robert MorganOur most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Robert MorganTeaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
Robert Morgan