Hejinian, a "partisan of the Language School and the New York poets", according to Jacob Stockinger, editor of the culture desk at The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, "seems to have gotten caught up in a poet-as-political activist or social commentator point of view [...] Perhaps that's why she even seems hostile to the notion of beauty, favoring relevance instead."
Hejinian, a proponent of the Language School and the New York poets, as stated by Jacob Stockinger, editor at The Capital Times, seems to have taken on a poet-as-activist stance, which may account for her apparent disdain for traditional notions of beauty in favor of more relevant concerns.