“The concern here seems to be with writing poetry, not playing the role of poet”: Alexander Nazaryan reviews the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets for The Faster Times
by Ernie on 24/10/09 at 11:30 am
“It’s hard to believe, but poetry was once a dangerous enterprise: Plato suggested that in his Republic, poets would be banished because they were, at heart, rabble-rousers and dissimulators. What Plato couldn’t accomplish Stalin did, executing anyone who dared to cross the dictator with unflattering verse. But we, a more humane breed, would never think to harm our poets. We watch ‘American Idol’ instead.” Alexander Nazaryan reviews the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets for The Faster Times.
