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Article: A post mortem on postmodernism. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
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- March 1, 2003
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SIR: My thoughts are loosely related to the debate between Patrick McCauley and Alison Croggon (Letters, November 2002).
Postmodernism is dead; free verse was once a battleground of philosophy for forward thinking and developmental ideas, but we have soured mother's milk with clotted cream. What is poetry other than a communal language? It must be understood before it can be reciprocated and let go.
The mosaic genre is empty without the spirituality of a practical base purpose, and in order to defer issues of neglect or incompetence, it deliberately defies the needs of local communities: masking critical social voices with the ethereal trappings of the ...