Myth of Arrival

There will always be a backlash against the edgy, the extreme, the revolutionary. Right now the academic canon can’t get enough of stream of consciousness, free verse, genderless, anti-political poets. If a poem like Ginsberg’s Howl did anything, it gave permission for rambling, theory-based, abstract conceptionalism to become the dominate form of today’s […]

“This land of jungles and paddy fields
is where Heaven meets Earth.”
— Larry Mitchell, “The Ballad of Vietnam”
I have just finished reading a book about war and survival. Very few poets have written about war first hand. That is not to say there are […]