News at Eleven: If the language poets teach us anything,

it's to look past those crude definitions. And [Ron] Silliman's poetry certainly resists simple classification. Generally speaking, language poetry tries to disrupt our usual ways of reading. For such poets, the physical shapes of the words on the page and the sounds they make in our heads are just as important as any accumulated narrative or meaning. Silliman's words continually call attention to the fact that they're only that--words.

from The Philadephia Inquirer: 'Language poetry'? It's all words

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