The Hatred of Poetry Condition:Like New to an exciting reunion with

to an exciting reunion with a junior college friend that culminated in marriage

where the world can literally be remade through conscious cocreation

life is too complicated: You seem to see violence everywhere you turn

Author: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writers of the Victorian period

The Hatred of Poetry Condition:Like New to an exciting reunion withNo art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."In this inventive and lucid essay,