Oh my goodness, we totally forgot you were even here, have you been sitting in this little cubicle all afternoon?

At The New York Times, (August 26, 2016) David Orr weighs in on Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry.  He begins:

If you’re a poet, it’s easy to spend a lot of time worrying about how people feel about poetry. It’s also easy to dismiss how people feel because if you were to consider the blithe indifference with which most audiences actually regard poets and their poems, it would be depressing — and not depressing in the poetic way that, for instance, mortality is depressing, but depressing in the way that, Oh my goodness, we totally forgot you were even here, have you been sitting in this little cubicle all afternoon?

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