Something that might have been overseen: no matter where one stands in the poetico-political spectrum in the United States (either in the Official Verse Culture/School of Quietude conservative position or the progressive discussion of community ________ in the Bay Area), the opinion of poetry is still romantic. Poetry is utopia, either because it is a place of Homer, Milton, &c. (in the conservative point of view) or it is the place where one can "reformulate the social grammar."

It is never work (except in Kenneth Goldsmith's work. And Ron Silliman's Ketjak.)

Does this have anything to do with the US being more conservative than Europe?