Poetry, Fascism, and Imagination

Psycho-materialism against a spiritualizing tendency in US poetry

In the recent Harper’s, poet Christian Wiman has written a review the letters of Seamus Heaney. Normally, I would not pay attention to this, but I got tricked into reading it via a somewhat misleading tweet. The essay is mostly unremarkable, and there is nothing truly egregious about it. Wiman represents a very conservative tendency in poetry, but he is…