hands of our all-volunteer army. After six decades ofnmodernism, we are left with the choice between thenwell-subsidized vandalism of the arts-and-letters establishmentnand some attempt to reclaim, and not for the first timenin the history of our barbarian nation, our cultural inheritance.nGoing back a single generation, even if it, werenpossible, would not be worth the effort.nThe communal and religious spirit of the classics maynrepresent an impossible ideal for anyone but a sentimentalnreactionary or a crazed Marxist, but Greek literature isnthere — if you can find someone to teach it to yournchildren — as a perpetual reminder of what flawed humanityncan achieve when we are bound together by ties of bloodnand ritual. It is also the very opposite of what most literarynmovements hope to achieve. Rather than dividing a peopleninto artists and philistines, intellectuals and rednecks, greatnpoetry bound an ancient community together in an art thatn^^w^^^-^-ncould please high and low alike. Addressed to the mostnparticular concerns of the city — a large number of Aristophanes’njokes are opaque even to scholars — these playsnhave become the most universal items in our culturalninheritance.nIf it is this inheritance that the practitioners of formal andnnarrative verse are setting out to reclaim, they deserve everynencouragement. The worst thing they could do is to formnyet one more movement or clique, complete with slogansnand heroes. Some, at least, of the polemics coming out ofnthe formalists suggest just that, and it is not a good sign thatnmany of them seem oblivious of all the good poetry —nincluding narrative and formal verse—being written outsidentheir circle. Still, the revival of real poetry comes like a leg ofnlamb after 40 days of fasting, and there is no point innquarreling, at this point, over the quality of the turnips beingnput around the roast. <^n= f^^S^^ktMv^^ ‘^nA§ ^oes (he American l^mily,nso im our nation.nThe strength and resilience of the AmericannFamily is quite simply the single greatest assetnour nation possesses.nLong battered, neglected, maligned, andndivided, the American Family’s regeneration as anpowerful center for values, achievement, andnfulfillment is an unmistakable signal: a goodnidea whose time has come. Again.nThat’s why a new publication is chroniclingnevents, floodlighting the issues, debunking thenbureaucrats and social experimenters, andntalking common sense.nThis monthly publication is called The Familynin America.nShocking. Provocative. Eye-opening. Combative.nThoughtful. And, when necessary,noutrageous.nThe Family in America is all this and morenas, each month, its editors grapple with fundamentalnissues affecting your family’s future.nEach month, The Family in America will:n• joust with tlie bureaucrats and martinets who muddlenpublic policy affecting the American Family;n• expose governmental tinkering and doublespeak onnfamily issues;n• probe the underlying statistics and trends running innfavor of your family – and against it;n• reveal the works and exceptional research of today’snbest and brightest scholars, writers, educators.nIf you think it’s important to be informednabout the forces that may affect the health andnwell-being of your family now and in the yearsnahead, the choice is a simple one.nTake pen in hand, and subscribe now.nRequest your suhscriptiorHoday.nFor fast ordering callntoll free (800) 892-0753 ILn(800) 435-0715 Outside ILnThe Family in AmericanABSOLUTELY “YES!” Count me in!n• Yes! Please enter my subscription to ThenFamily in America at $14.97 for 12 montlilynissues. I save $6.03 off the basic rate of $21.n• Payment enclosed • Bill me laternNamenAddressnnncity State ZipnCanadian and foreign orders add $6 per year,npayable in U.S. funds onlynPlease allow 4-6 w/eeks for your first copy tonarrive. Mail coupon to: P.O. Box 416, Mt. Morris, ILn61054 TF368nDECEMBER 1989/15n