"How with his rage...": Poetry in a Time of War and Atrocity.

An essay about poetry in a time of war and atrocity is presented. According to critic Lionel Trilling, people are standing at a dark and bloody crossroads where literature and politics meet. It talks about the so-called citizen's poetry in which the perception, vision and voice of citizens as poets necessarily reflect that part. The author says that writers are facing the problem of living in a time of war and atrocity, of the violation of rights, when the citizen within must speak.