Confessional Poets--particularly those of the suicidal school--John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton, are probably not completely responsible for the phenomenon, but do bear a burden of responsibility for the progressive diminution of poetry.



Steven Riddle at Flos Carmeli gives a seminar session in modern American poetry in the space of half a dozen paragraphs. And, as in the poetic vision itself, the implications range far beyond the text.