poetry criticism
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Sometimes there are books I just cannot connect with. It is something that happens to me with fiction books all the time. It happens much less often with poetry books. Doubtless this is because of the way I usually choose my poetry books. With poetry, it is easy to pick of a volume, skim pages, Read more
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More than any poet, I associate Auden with mountains because that is where I first seriously read him. I carried a volume of his selected poems into the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness when I worked trail crew there for the United States Forest Service during summers in the early 1980s. In the evenings, after everyone else went Read more
