✍ Scribed by Hoagland, Tony
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of **What Narcissism Means to Me
** _Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. This is more than a shame, for poetry is our common treasure-house, and we need its vitality, its respect for the subconscious, its willingness to entertain ambiguity, its plaintive truth-telling, and its imaginative exhibitions of linguistic freedom, which confront the general culture's more grotesque manipulations. We need the emotional training sessions poetry conducts us through. We need its previews of coming attractions: heartbreak, survival, failure, endurance, understanding, more heartbreak.
_ --from "Twenty Poems That Could Save...
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