How Contemporary American Poets Are Denaturing the Poem: “If this has the same effect on you as it does on me, then you have no thoughts about it. In fact, it is not because such poems are “difficult”, that I turn away from them. Most readers of poetry are attracted to the difficulty of the deeply human, the mystery of its oblique and contrary expressions. Rather, it is because such poems have spurned me, have no use for me, or any reader, would rather go frolic with themselves in a dark place, crossing themselves out, line by line, word by word, then in a yawn of post-language satisfaction, roll over and go to sleep, leaving me to stare at an old wallpaper stain.

Fortunately, a wallpaper stain provides more potential as an aesthetic challenge than staring at a disappearing poem.” (Web Del Sol)