Poetry about nothing
Good Reports’s Alex Good uses a review of the Carmine Starnino-edited anthology The New Canon to ask whether the marginalization of poetry as a literary form is due less to a dearth of talent than to a reluctance on the part of poets to address our “deepest political, religious, intellectual, cultural, and social concerns.”
Good writes: “The non-narrative, non-thematic, non-intellectual (indeed anti-intellectual) poetry of epiphany and observation, no matter how exquisitely crafted and brilliantly realized, is no replacement. Our horror of the didactic has led to an anodyne product that oftentimes isn’t about anything at all.”
We at In Other Media are sure our nation’s poets haven’t been this hot and bothered since the last time they were called marginal. Like, last week.
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Read Good’s review of The New Canon
