I just finished reading American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology Of New Poetry edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John. The book is a compilation of poets and a selection of their poems that have been published over the past 10 or 20 years, illustrating the vast expanse of poetic ideologies on the current scene. [...]
Innovation is a poetic necessity. Poets who have stood the test of time were innovators within their schools, and many were innovators among the broader poetic community. From Homer, who took the poetic storytelling form from the oral tradition to the printed page, to New Formalism on the one end of the scale and Language [...]