America's cities embody some of the central paradoxes involved with modern American life and with human existence: poverty in the midst of plenty, a type of loneliness that is intensified by a crowd, dirty brick smokestacks and disused factories that are nonetheless seen as beautiful. Many of these poems inhabit this paradox, especially where people are involved. "The only madness is loneliness, " wrote the Irish poet John Montague. He was ech...
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