From the publisher : This brilliant book from James Matthew Wilson— winner of the 2022 Parnassus Prize —powerfully demonstrates how the evolution of Modern and Post-Modern criticism and theory, free verse, and political ideology have greatly diminished contemporary poetry. The final chapter is a tour de force that comp Memoria Press product: https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/mcp/the-fortunes-of-poetry-in-an-age-of-unmaking/