Classic oppositional poetics statement by Ange Mlinko over at Ron's blog today.

O Buffalo, O Brown, O little clubhouses everywhere!

Oppositionalism is simply politics. It's motivated by a political desire to feel important, relevant to something larger than oneself, empowered; you could translate these attitudes into ANY professional field of endeavor and apply them seamlessly. Ironically, the us/them divide merely allows "us" to wallow in complacency, to create whole idioms & theoretical systems to support "marginality" at all cost & with all hypocrisy, to disregard many techniques of social poetry simply because they turn the mode & target of address away from the clique itself.

Ange Mlinko plays these themes on a simple oaten flute; Ron Silliman with full orchestra & pipe organ.

But this junk is not even worth talking about. I'm sure it will be turned into blog-hash for days now.