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On Political Poetry
Bly, Robert | April 24, 1967 issue

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This article presents information on the shortage of poets in the U.S. who are interested in political poetry. There hasn't been many poets in the U.S. whose work had some serious political meaning. It is increasingly felt that very few poems written by the poets in the U.S. penetrate to any reality in the political life of the U.S. The truth is that most poets in the U.S. do not bother to penetrate the husk around their own personalities, and therefore cannot penetrate the husk that has grown around the psyche of the country either.

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POETRY; POLITICAL poetry; POLITICS & literature; POETS, American; POLITICS in literature; UNITED States
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