"None of these poets is hermetic, but many are willing to challenge you as well as to entertain you. Poetry appears here as an art for grownups — not self-serious adults, but actually mature people who treasure serious play and complex comedy as much as filigreed melancholy."
Poetry here functions as an advanced art form — not pretentious adults, but genuinely mature people who value intricate humor and subtle sorrow just as much as ornate melancholy.