News at Eleven: And I think it was because those people

felt that in order to separate their business lives from their imaginative lives, they literally like Wallace Stevens, he had this briefcase and when he opened it up he said "This side is poetry, this side is insurance and you don't mix them." So it's male compartmentalization perhaps.

But also, American poetry has never really been very good in the 20th century, about talking about public, social issues.

from Knowledge@Wharton: Dana Gioia on the Close Connection between Business and Poetry

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