The young poets who stand out have helped make race and sexuality and gender the red-hot centers of current poetry, and they push past as many boundaries as they can. They strain to think anew about selfhood and group membership. Drawing on eclectic traditions, they mine the complexity latent in the lyric ‘I.’ At its best . . .” (“How Poetry Came to Matter Again,” Jesse Lichtenstein, the Atlantic, September 2018.)
