The Poetry of Embarrassment: On Three New Collections
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SINCE THE ROMANTIC PERIOD two centuries back, lyric poetry has long been presumed the genre most suited for expressing intense and powerful emotions. For anguish, there is Keats; for longing, Whitman; for exaltation, Neruda; for rage, Plath (and Sexton). And so on. Gravitas is the route to greatness;…