Words Under the Words (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Children, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Friendship, Schools or school life, Cats, Death or dying, Orphans or orphanages, Palestinian Arabs, Aging, Prayers
The current poetry scene is fragmented, with the postmodernists, the followers of Ezra Pound and Charles Olsen, on one side and the neoformalists on the other. In the middle stand those who practice a free verse that is accessible to general readers of literature. The middle group often catches flak from both sides, from the postmodernists for insufficient intellectual density and from the neoformalists for not being controlled by rhyme and rhythm, the factors they believe make poetry. Yet with these “mainstream” poets lies the main hope of demarginalizing poetry. The middle voice...
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