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March 9, 2006
Favorite poets...I've been reading poetry since I was a kid. My father was addicted to it, though he likes more dramatic verse than I ever did. (I'll never forget his impassioned rendering of the "The Highwayman.") My grandmother taught me a love of Dickinson and Millay, but it was really the discovery of the Norton Anthology of Modern English Poetry that converted me forever. This edition is, sadly, no longer available, but it was new and shiny in 1976 or 1977 and full of poets it was easy for a young woman to love, from Wallace Stevens to Etheridge Knight to Sonia Sanchez. I read the whole thing, page by page, and felt like I was discovering a new world. In those days I had a near photographic memory and a lot of those poems stay with me still, if I close my eyes and visualize the page.
Posted by kalital at March 9, 2006 11:33 PM Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsHi Kali - I just found your blog and site. Hope you're going to be posting again soon? I've got a copy of your Worlds of Hurt - a really important book imho. Posted by: broke at June 4, 2006 11:20 AM Post a comment |
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