“Theory can explain why revolution may be necessary and analyze what constrains us. But perhaps only poetry can show how that cry emerges from modes of awareness more intimate, more widely shared, and more desperate than theory can develop.” 

^{Charles Altieri, 'The Pleasures of Not Merely Circulating: Joshua Clover's Political Imagination,' in Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell, eds., American Poets in the 21st Century, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2007: 164-79, p. 173.}