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  • A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.

    Denise Levertov (1992). “New & Selected Essays”, p.146, New Directions Publishing