“I, too, dislike it,” said Marianne Moore at the beginning of her own poem about poetry, and I’m afraid that I’d say much the same thing about most of the work that she and her modernist colleagues produced. That’s because they gave up singing for saying, and their successors often gave up saying for grunting, or for a sort of intellectual posing whic…
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