![]() ![]() This is the gift of high modern and postmodern art. Only a writer who has studied and read the deepest narratives will succeed, reaching for and pulling up out of the muck brief remnants that add much-needed weight to the radical fragmentation that is contemporary life’s relationship to personal and cultural histories, not to mention death and reality. ![]() For the real owns rider and horse, and language obscures this fact by its severing nature-and this explains why postmodern literature is such a difficult medium in most hands. In the highest sense, both approaches to writing use language to pull everyone involved up short to a face-to-face blinking contest with reality. Both postmodern and high modernist poetry have a context of traumatized grand narratives, reflections of human consciousness (both writer and reader) damaged by and aware of their own damages, whatever the source. ![]()
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