"Raiding the Vernacular": A Roundtable Discussion on Bruce Andrews:

"N[ick] L[awrence]: When I first read the work in the '80s, and I had no idea about the poetics advanced alongside it, I thought of hip-hop. The energy is all focused on a particularly public kind of utterance, or private-made-public, usually street argot or the kind of language from conversations in bars, etc. -- relatively little so-called reflective or intimate speech."