September 27, 2002
10 Years After, Poetry Still Matters
Ten years ago this fall, an executive who had managed the Jell-O account at General Foods published a collection of essays about American poetry. Its contents included a debunking of Robert Bly, a defense of Weldon Kees, an appreciation of Robinson Jeffers, and a clutch of short reviews. But one essay overshadowed all the others, and its opening paragraph was routinely quoted.
"American poetry now belongs to a subculture," argued Dana Gioia in Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and
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