"Today’s poetry establishment commands polite respect but hardly enthusiasm and excitement"

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.3/marjorie_perloff_poetry_lyric_reinvention.php

MAY/JUNE 2012

Poetry on the Brink

Reinventing the LyricMarjorie Perloff
"Indeed, what Penguin’s editorial team seems to be saying is that the value of Dove’s anthology’s depends not on its overall plan or on the wisdom of its selections—its capacity to satisfyingly delineate a poetic canon or make some claim about the nature of poetry in a certain time or place—but on the prestige of its editor."