I finished reading Alan Gilbert's brilliant Another Future: Poetry And Art In A Postmodern Twilight (order here) this morning. I love how Gilbert contextualizes the poetry of the mid-late 90s (re: Anselm Berrigan, Greg Fuchs, Magdalena Zurawski and Prageeta Sharma et al)

"The fact a positive set of criteria can be delineated for this work means it's not 'post-' anything--neither 'post-postmodern' nor 'post-Language [poetry],' which are two recent descriptions bandied about in an attempt to get a grasp on the heterogeneous and heterodox aspects of contemporary poetry. To use the phrase 'post-modern' or 'post-Language' reduces the plurality of poetries practiced by an entire generation of writers to a pre-established set of formal techniques, something we shouldn't wish on anybody."

boom, for real..