I was struck a little bit lopsided by this post over at Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog. Usually, I find some pretty interesting commentary on this blog, but this one struck me as a bit shallow. The blogger, Lucia Perillo, asked “Why do poets tend to be liberal?” On the surface it seems like a [...]
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See, this is what I mean when I say that the Baby Boomer generation screwed up America. When I made that comment on Ron Silliman’s blog a few days ago, one member of that generation asked me, before he drifted off into the bleachers of the lone baseball field in la-la land, how I could [...]
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