The "new sentimentality" wrapped itself up Marxist theory, but that soon dropped away. Without this mooring in theory, the movement became "the poetry of experience," and had no way of distinguishing itself from the consumer society to which it appealed. The logical next step is the Instagram poets, who dispensed with both Marxism and the strategic ties to the literary canon.
Not well-written (yet) but that is the idea. It is kind of the problem of socialist realism. The realist part is simply boring, and also came at the price of killing off any alternatives (literally, in the case of Stalin). The socialist part? Well, that is programatic, the idea that literature should support a certain ideology.
To me, the poetry of LGM has the smell of stale cigarette smoke. It all sounds the same.
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