The Hatred of Poetry Condition:Like New Gerard Manley Hopkins was among

Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writers of the Victorian period

life is too complicated: You seem to see violence everywhere you turn

the longuers

The case of Fletcher v

to an exciting reunion with a junior college friend that culminated in marriage

The Hatred of Poetry Condition:Like New Gerard Manley Hopkins was amongNo art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."In this inventive and lucid essay,