I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
“Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.”
“I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.”