Poetics and Politics

Early this year there was allot of yelling by poets against the war et cetera. While I think this effort was noble, I think something else needs to be asked. Post modern poetry is opaque and not an easy read-- much of the neo confessional stuff (read Hirsch, Pinsky et al) is personal and sappy-- I wonder if as poets we need to re examine the need to write manifestos and to challenge the political establishments accepted norms in new ways.