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Contemporary classification of poetry is a bit of a mess. For the next few days, I will be staying in an apartment across from the Linnaeus Gardens, the birthplace of the 18th century classification system we still use. You know, the kingdom, phylum, class, order, and on system we use to organize the things in the world. Though ‘science,’ the original system was deeply embedded within the values of the period and place in which it developed. It was extremely hierarchical, deeply patriarchal, and, as it would turn out, inevitably imperialistic. Linnaeus’ Garden was, perhaps predictably, intended to replicate the Garden of Eden.