"So as history dictates, perhaps the pendulum should swing wildly the other way and we should plunge back into the aural. Inject a kind of layered dynamism into poetry, a highly concentrated polyglot song where the voice is not a mimesis of the natural plain spoken but instead “speaks” in a stylized invented language that reflects and ultimately synthesizes the careening sounds of a shrinking late capitalist world."
It's something to think about. Here's the rest of Cathy Park Hong's essay:
http://slapkoppel.blogspot.com/2006/03/essay-by-cathy-park-hong.html
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