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Help Me Blog "The Best American Poetry"

Any help with the below would be appreciated. 

I was asked to be a guest blogger for the duration of this week at the BAP blog ("Best American Poetry").

Since the Scribner BAP series began in 1988, the formulation "best american poetry" has not-necessarily-intentionally underscored the cultural politics of aesthetic assessment and anthology making, nationalism in letters, and the cult of the virtuoso. 

Clearly BAP as a formulation of a habitus (and not as an overt project by its editors) can be rea

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