"Factionalism" In American Poetry

Johannes Goransson, over at Montevidayo, has lobbed quite the slow, perfectly placed meatball for poets and blog reactionaries with the following:

I see a lot of criticism of what apparently a lot of people see as a problem of “factionalism” in American poetry. There are too many groups – “tribes,” “camps,” “movements,” “cliques” etc – in American poetry. What’s the problem with this? What’s the alternative? Why is it that this criticism is so pervasive? How much of this goes back to the cold-war two-camp model of the 1960s “anthology wars”? Is “American Hybrid” (an establishment based on a model of compromise) the only solution? Is it even a solution? Do we want a solution?

This should be fun. Keep an eye on that comment stream!