Society… did not favor the reading of poetry…. By the ’90s, it was all over…. consider that poetry is the only art form where the number of people creating it is far greater than the number of people appreciating it…. People don’t possess the patience to read a poem 20 times before the sound and sense of it takes hold….
I am part of a world that apotheosizes the trendy, and poetry is just about as untrendy as it gets. I want to read books with buzz… and I can’t remember the last book of poetry that created even a dying mosquito’s worth of hum. I am also lazy, and poetry takes work.
–Bruce Wexler1
NOTES:
1) Bruce Wexler, “Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?” May 5, 2003, Newsweek, accessed July 7, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/59182/page/1 (page no longer available)
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