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Newsweek on poetry
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poetry and ethics
Re: Poetry - Defending the absurd
An interesting argument comes higher up in the same Newsweek article [emphasis mine]: Poetry, for all its merits, has no program or volume to rival the current popularity of Oprah and Harry Potter, but even so, the decline of its already modest following is noteworthy. Some critics and readers claim that most poetry today is too cloistered and ...
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White_Rabbit
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July 24, 2009