Bread Alone: a heartbreaking lament

Bread Alone, Kim Jensen, Syracuse University Press, 2009, Hardcover, 101pp. The trouble with most poetry that addresses contemporary injustice — war, inequality, class, immigration, etc—is that it’s bad or mediocre. I say this as one who in his zombie youth complained that Allen Ginsberg’s Howl was mediocre poetry, however just its complaints. I passed those [...]

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