makes no revelatory comparison, confronts no new audience, engages no misconception in language likely to be understood by the deceived, and so on and so on. Having dared, to his credit, a truly political poem, [Robert] Hass is unable to muster an engaging political voice, and instead retreats into the conventions of the contemporary meditative lyric.from David Orr: Poetry Magazine: The Politics of Poetry
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