“High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.”
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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.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
