Tracy K. Smith Quotes

Poems Infatuated With Their Own Smarts And Detached From Any Emotional Grounding Can Leave The Reader Feeling Lonely, Empty And Ashamed For Having Expected More. Like Icy Adolescents, Such Poetry Is More Interested In Commiserating Than Acknowledging That Feelings - The Sentiments That Make Us Susceptible To Sentimentality - Actually Exist.

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