I'll follow up the links Spleen. Never had any problem with Jim Carroll's working method or contribution to the tradition, he pulls the trigger too quickly on internet message boards and usually at the wrong target.

Greg Stephens, you either understand a movement like neo-romanticism and the work of RVW or you don't. I'm not going to post a potted thesis. The preoccupations of the movement informed the IFMCs words. There's your context. It's not the Song of Songs, it ain't a love letter, it's a kind of mischief, even for those of us who admire the neo-romantics.