April 17, 2009
The Eloquence of Money
For more than three decades, I've said to my students that the wonderful thing about poetry is there's no money in it. Unlike fiction, for example, it's utterly detached from the world of commerce, and so it floats in a zone where certain pressures — money always brings with it pressures of one kind or another — do not obtain. Robert Graves, the English poet and novelist, went a step further when he claimed that "just as there is no money in poetry, there is no poetry in
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