But, after all, what I feel that I'm teaching, which is why I've agreed to be a university professor all these years, is a tradition.
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
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American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
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