undergraduates (and some teachers) as our most impor- tant uoets.
Readers' desires for clarity and memorable language cannot be dis- missed as escapism or bad taste, Clausen concludes. On the contrary, this preference may simply indicate a desire for poetry that transcends the ills of modern life. Poetry must "reflect the complexity of [the poet's] thinking," as William Carlos Williams said late in his life, but it "should be brought into the world where we live and not be so recon-...