Wit's Worth: A Reflection on Contemporary American Poetry on Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

Michael Theune

Wit's Worth: A Reflection on Contemporary American Poetry on Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

Illinois Wesleyan University

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Abstract

Near the beginning of last century, Ezra Pound proclaimed that poetry should be at least as well-written as prose. Near the end of that same century, Charles Bernstein declared that poetry should be at least as interesting as TV. The start of a new century brings with it a new demand for poetry: poetry must be at least as witty, as knowing and as surprising as Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans . And, though it may not seem so at first, this silly—and disturbing, and wonderful—book offers serious lessons for and challenges to contemporary American poetry at all levels: from individual poem to overarching theory.

Originally published in Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and used with permission.

Original language	American English
State	Published - 2006

Disciplines

English Language and Literature

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