Battle of the Books, part 2:

HENRY'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY

There was Official Verse Culture.
There was Oppositional-Negativity Verse Culture.

And there was me, going through my long long poems like a freight train in the distance.

A few people waved to me as I went by (Kent, Lissa . .).

The End

(p.s. there were a few other poets, too, I guess)