Caleb Merritt

“Dyfficuhlteh Mhineous” — Poetry We “Don’t Get” Can Save Our Practice of Writing, Our Poets, & Our Population

Abstract

Most of us are “poetry illiterate.” The way we engage with (or, more often, avoid engaging with) difficult poetry — poetry we just don’t understand or just “don’t get” — has far-reaching implications concerning the practice of writing, the people who write it, and the population at large.