Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: unimaginative criticism

Longenbach's approach to "modern poetry after modernism" (I put it in quotes because of the disservice he does to his topic) represents one of the most conservative, unimaginative, and predictable accounts of modern poetry after modernism. He focuses on the usual suspects, ignores our more radical poets (though Ashbery is/was radical, he's become a tired topic for critics), and invites some of the poets he writes about to blurb his poetry book. If this smells like careerism, the book's lack of substance will corroborate the odor.