"Now [past] the end of the twentieth century, most societies are not even halfway functioning. What does poetry do then? For at least a century and a half, the socially engaged writers of the developed world have taken their role to be one of resistance and subversion. Poetry can disclose the misuse of language by holders of power, it can attack dangerous archetypes employed to oppress, and it can expose the flimsiness of shabby made-up mythologies."
Gary Snyder
A Place in Space
