I've emailed Bob Hass to see if he is indeed the author of the mystery article. I've written 500 more words of the article on translation and period style. It has been sort of writing itself in my head the whole day.

Upper limit: Merwin
Lower limit: Bly
Somewhere in the middle: Strand

But is Merwin better than Strand? How does the Asbheryianism of the right fit it here? Goldbarth? Does it fold back into the deep image based period style, or is it its own separate thing? How about practitioners of the old period style (academic 50s), like Moss and Hall, who end up writing in the period style of the 80s?

What happens when the period style absorbs the more intellectual mode of Jorie Graham? What if there is no period style and I am simply making it all up?