Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month

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“The clipped syntax, jagged lines, the fixation on ordinary, even banal objects and actions, the wry, world-weary narratorial voice: This is the default register of most poetry written in the past half century, including that written by poets who may not have read a single line of Eliot....”

I don’t get that impression from reading Ted Kooser or Ruth Stone