It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least,

