“Poetry practice has changed throughout time to the increase of the riches of poetry in general, by poets doing what they have been told not to or sensed were discouraged/disallowed from doing.  At the center of any artistic practice is a resistance as well as a contrary impulse to identify, to stand off from the tribe and to be part of it.  Poetry is an assertive force.”

From: The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young