Michael Berger sees the potential of poetry:
[P]oetry has that strange way of reflecting every sad inch of you.
Yet if we consider poetry as less a morbid exploration of these bleak realities and more of a redemptive confrontation with them, then poetry will start selling like The Power Of Now or The Secret. Poems, instead of all those smug, unrealistic books on self-deification, will be the signposts directing us down navigable routes through thickets of pain and wastelands of loss.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/03/-the-healing-quality-of-the-poetic/189613/
