the iconoclast's descending

  An Iconoclast’s Poietic Apocatastasis Literary Merit and Metaphysical Fracture Riding the Eschaton Douglas Blake Olds March 30, 2026  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] A persistent error in modern literary judgment treats formal intensity as spiritually and metaphysically neutral, if not hidebound. Fragmentary pressure, charged incompletion, montage, suggestiveness, interruption, tonal instability, and aphorism can be counted as marks of high literary merit without adequate interrogation of the metaphysical assumptions they carry. Yet form never remains final in effect. A literary met...