Religion (broadly speaking, how else?) may seem more optional/less
pervasive, but only of course from the outside; I'm an atheist, and get
the relevant goosebumps and gorge-risings when I stare at the News from
Alabama (kids boycotting school because the state wishes not to -require-
Christian prayer sessions etc) etc, there's a deal of point-mssing, sure,
but why in poetry also? Religious poetry may be of a decreased viability,
relative to Donne's or even to Eliot's days, but that's surely more to do
with the ardent, fanatic tugs of trendmakers at the publishing houses than
it is a sign that the mode/orientation of poetic inquiry is defunct.
Besides, much new poetry is religious. Take Prynne's Her Weasels Wild
Returning, for example. Why the "none of that here"? k
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