Aristotle had said that great art had to be about kings and generals and people of power. Well, it could also be about the homeless – even the twitch in the face of a homeless man, asleep on a bench in November.
“Anglophilia is a disease that American poets have struggled with since the days of Poe, but it doesn’t mean that Bunting or Raworth are not great poets with absolute relevancy regardless of where one lives. “