The New Estate

Poetry is in trouble.
Post-modern poetry often lacks the essentials,
– music and meaning.
The illusion of meaning is too often achieved by obfuscation. Poetry becomes lost in today’s cultural wasteland and is left primarily to scholars and critics, when a century ago a maid and a blue-collar worker could discuss the merits of their favorite poet. Much to our great disadvantage, poetry is lost.
With C. H. Connors’ The New Estate, a riveting collection of work becomes a little more accessible...