At some points I'll just be talking and at some points
I'll read.
I'm going to start off by talking about some poems that I
encountered that led me to a generalization
about what is going on in this particular moment
in contemporary American poetry.
And by this particular moment, I probably
mean 10 years, something like that.
And some thoughts I have about it, which aren't
necessarily accurate truth.
But some provocative kinds of subjects, ideas
come up in relationship to this poetry and in relationship
to our cultural moment.
And maybe you can help me see some of the holes
or some of the places that I would
need to go next in developing this into a whole.
But I'll just start off by saying
that my talk is about distance from subject
matter in some ways that I see manifesting
in contemporary American poetry.