Life in Poetry

These poems, written from 1955 to 2014, are a reflection on the period by someone who lived through it and, of course, aged in the process. Various world tragedies knocked the poetry out of him a time or two.He says: Somewhere between 1955 and 2000 humanitytook a further seriously wrong turning. The twenty-fi rstcentury started in farce that gave unlimited power topeople intent on mass murder. We let it happen.Poetry was once the great harbinger of understandingand poets were once...
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These poems, written from 1955 to 2014, are a reflection on the period by someone who lived through it and, of course, aged in the process. Various world tragedies knocked the poetry out of him a time or two.He says: Somewhere between 1955 and 2000 humanitytook a further seriously wrong turning. The twenty-fi rstcentury started in farce that gave unlimited power topeople intent on mass murder. We let it happen.Poetry was once the great harbinger of understandingand poets were once listened to because they hadsomething important to say.