quandaries and struggles of the poet's life that although we know poetry is our most rigorous and ... all of this, though. Just for the time of this talk, I'd like to try to postulate a poetry ... too, am being utopian, but I want to imagine a poetry which would indeed incorporate all the persuasive ...

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commercial success). There is hardly any commercial demand for poetry among the ital­ ian reading public, and ... even the multitudes who write poetry do not seem to read each other's work. Yet one should not ... conclude from this that Italians don't read poetry. On the contrary, there is considerable ...

paradoxes of the­ world's existence. However, the problem of "pure poetry" does ... century, poetry has moved forward (if it's "forward" at all) by violent leaps ... remains: can poetry free itself from duty, or from the pressures of the time and place in which it is ...