I have been eating poetry.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
The burial of feelings has begun.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.