Certain circles seriously asked whe...

Certain circles seriously asked whether American metrical composition can be said to be political. "Where are the contemporary American equivalents of Yeats's 'Easter 1916' and Auden's 'September 1 1939'? Where is our Octavio Paz, our Vaclev Havel?" Adrienne Rich and Carloyn Forche, of Americans writing in English, have written politically, and identity poetics and postcolonial criticism are politic. Then Rachel Loden's inn Imperium was published in late 1999 It's now in its inferior printing, a rarity, but not a surprise for this prize-winning first work No one else brings of that kind ...