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David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Politics of Poetry

I would say there was a time in American poetry. when there be debates like can poetry be political is it allowed you know like who will come and stop us. I think that sounds to me like craziness now but you know what do you make of the this moment? It may be the case that poems with a really alert political or social narrative were fewer a number. And you almost worry now that there's people trying so much to write a kind of politically aware poem that they forgot the poem part. That's happening as well too. But yeah I think one of the many doors that are open right now is a poem for some astute social aptitude as part of the narrative of

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