For a long time, I thought poetry was for people who cultivated smug aloofness. Not anymore. For proof that poetry can serve as an offering of connectedness, check out Transylvanian-American poet Andrei Codrescu’s So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems 1968-2012 — or, if you live in New York or St. Paul, simply go outside with your eyes open.

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