L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry

Bob Perelman classifies the techniques or genres the Language poets were attracted to:

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1) a high degree of syntactic and verbal fracturing, often treating the page as a structural frame; 2) use of found materials, cutting-up borrowed texts; 3) a focus on rhythmic noun phrases, bop rather than incantatory, with semantics definitely soft-pedaled but not inaudible; 4) a hyperextension of syntactic possibilities, more Steinian than surreal; and 5) philosophic lyrics.

Bob Perelman, “Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice,” American Literature 65.2 (June 1993): 315.