Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-08-04

"If a person were to accept all that I have said on the failure of poetry he could not without butchering the content of what I said bring into argument a concept of poetry as an operation to approach without high expectations. You must go elsewhere with such argument. Find someone who has not approached poetry with high expectations of it (per its own inherent promise as what has long been with us), and you need not argue at all; that person would have no thought of renouncing poetry."