Writing Problems: Neoliberalism

Kunitz, Rich, Plath, Gorman, Gombrowicz, Milosz, "Antivenom"

It’s a commonplace of American poetry that poets and poetry occupy a higher moral ground, but poetry is not morally superior to any other human activity. American Poetry takes place in the context of neoliberalism—an ideology that proposes that human well-being is best advanced by the fair actions of a “free market” and casts inequity as a virtue. (If t…