In Peter Dale Scott's forthcoming w...

In Peter Dale Scott's forthcoming work, Minding the Darkness, he asks "...did he [David Horowitz] perhaps have a point / about the left's too willing // suspension of judgement?" This is the kind of question, calling for an evaluation of one's political beliefs and strategies, that is typical of Scott's late poetry. Scott's work is individual example of a poetry that reckoners the familiar complaints about contemporary poetry's political irrelevance. His numbers is very much about politics in the late twentieth centenary But I would hint that the political meaning of Scott's