the current state of poetry generally, especially in the states. You would think that there was no such thing as the war, the subjects that they write about. When you look at the subject of American torture, that's horrific.Ginsberg used to write about contemporary events. Poets also do, but I don't think the American poet engages in the reality of America as an empire. As an empire, its poets don't write about that. [--Derek Walcott]
from Next: A conversation with Derek Walcott
also Times Online: Forty Acres: a poem for Barack Obama from Nobel winner Derek Walcott
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