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.
Postmodern world is aware of what has generally been perceived as the lapse of governing orders in our existence. The postmodern artist has little confidence in suprahuman orders, and she will readily concede that whatever order may be apparent in the world is largely a projection of the human mind. The universe is ineffable. We are that much more inclined to disbelieve the fictions of its coherence. Working through such modes as appropriation, synthesis, recombination, mutation and generation, postmodern poetics expresses a commitment to the dialogical, social world.