I had never really thought that This Is Just To Say was annoying, but it really kind of is. And I had pretty much dismissed the other one out of hand as incomprehensible. But like you, I have no idea whether that is what he DOES. You must investigate further! But yes, it is very modern in the sense that you can always just *pretend* it's all very meaningful, and no one will ever know any different :oP

That Bletsoe poem is one I keep around, because I feel it is a personal affront that she wrote something SO ACADEMIC AND SUBJECTIVE and made it so impossible to understand. So I keep coming back to it, and I will actually say that the more I learn and read, the more sense it makes. Which is still largely No Sense At All interspersed with Tiny Moments of Potential Sense-Making, but still. For some reason it just got under my skin.