Q&A …

… The Age of Acceleration: An Interview with Martin Amis - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… the huge figures are no longer there, in poetry. Lowell, Seamus Heaney was one of the last. And I’m convinced, for that reason, that we live in the age of acceleration. Novels have evolved to deal with that, as the novel is able to do — just by moving a bit faster. Not being so speculative, digressive, intellectual. But poetry moves at its own pace, I think — and you can’t speed that up.