La parola da casa, Serena Piccoli

according to bowker's numbers, 560,626 new books and editions were published last year in the u.s. back in the 1990s, the numbers were less than 300,000. new publishing technologies have helped greatly with the numbers, and these types of numbers are enough to make one question the arguement that the arts are in a declining state. poetry, which has seen a dramatic increase in books published, is flourishing in the u.s. does that mean that everyone reads it? of course not, but when has most of the population read poetry?