Great Regulars: In my experience, pastiche, hyper-allusiveness

and associative logic contribute just as much to the texture of everyday communication as they do to making up postmodern literature and "Simpsons" episodes and Mitsubishi commercials. As negotiators of symbols, we are now comfortable with multiplicity and simultaneity, and our natural state seems to have become some play between the surface of language and the depths of meaning. Likewise, naked sentiment is often authenticated by a radical juxtaposition with ironic statement.

from The Washington Post: Poet's Choice: 'In an Adirondack With You' by Paul Otremba

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