James Longenbach on ‘The Resistance to Poetry’

This article appeared at a rather fortuitous time, as I have been re-reading Plato and writings about Plato and his objection to poetry. But like the idea of poetry and resistance. The immediate assumption, when you hear ‘poetry and resistance,’ is that speaker is talking about political resistance and poetry’s role and potential within activism. But there’s also poetry as resisting simple meanings, as resisting language itself, as resisting being assimilated or co-opted by society and culture.