Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Donald Hall:

After college many English majors stop reading contemporary poetry.  Why not? They become involved in journalism or scholarship, essay writing or editing, brokerage or social work; they backslide from the undergraduate Church of Poetry.  Years later, glancing belatedly at the poetic scene, they tell us that poetry is dead.  They left poetry; therefore they blame poetry for leaving them.  Really, they lament their own aging.  Don't we all?  But some of us do not blame the current poets.

"Death to the Death of Poetry"

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