similar to our political activists. (I was in New York City with thousands of other people protesting the coming war in Iraq, in conjunction with millions of other people around the world. The war happened anyway and I had to wonder "If this doesn't work, what does?" Still haven't figured it out.) Maybe so much has happened in American poetry, so quickly, that today's poets are still grappling with the achievements of yesterday's poets. (We've got a good handle on Whitman, but I don't know if anybody has really explored all the possibilities implied by Dickinson's grammar.) Or maybe we're just in a lull. Not every generation can, or has, produced the next society. Maybe, for whatever reason; our education structure, the economics of publishing, the prevalence of advertising, the dominance of entertainment, even our best poetic imaginations don't have what is needed to imagine and invent what's next.from Bookslut: The Problem with American Poetry
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