Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

1964). W. S.

Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974) which won the National Book AwardLove Death and the Changing of the Seasons (1986) and Going Back to the River (1990). She is Professor of English at the City College of New York.