Our latest installment of well-known American poets: Etheridge Knight. One of the things that I'm noticing about these folks is they are interested in the contemporary moment as it relates to some aspect of the broader culture. It all goes along with the Rushdie quote in the blog header. Poetry--at least to many of the dead poets we've encountered--has a role in the social framework. It is at least conscious of the social framework, conscious that whatever personal revelations and epiphanies the poem reaches happen in the context of the larger world, with its swirling madness and intractable conundrums. Let me ask you this: do many of the poems you read/write at ASFA take that notion to heart? (Here's a hint: No.) Why not?~
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