In an age of instant telecommunications and metropolitan life, the postmodern serial and procedural forms attempt to accommodate the overwhelming diversity of messages and the lapse of a grand order that is replaced by an arbitrary personal order. In postmodern poetics, there is a paradigmatic shift from the idea that language is transparent to the disclosure of its physicality, its intimacy, its obdurate persistence, and its paradoxical fragility.
Contemporary poetry avoids self-criticism and establishes itself as a singled unified voice.
Postmodernist poetics suggests an ongoing reinterpretation of the self in the context of others. While not a wholesale endorsement of many theoretic claims to he death of the author or the abandonment of intention, postmodern poetry nonetheless insists on a re-visioning of the authorial voice and its reception. The central tenet of modernism, as propounded by Clement Greenberg, is that no text exists outside and beyond itself. In modern works, there is the interruption of poems by pose arrangements, but the modernism prose fragments imply a cultural community or artifacts constituting a whole. Postmodern form responds to the conditions of the modern world.