Interview: Charles Simic on His Reading Life "At my age, 81, I mostly re-read, even going back to the poetry of the Greeks and Romans. My favorite poets in American literature are Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Whitman’s poems tend to be uneven so I read him less than Dickinson. I’m never exhausted by the riches of her poems. I read those two whenever I need to get my bearing as a poet. Poetry is as much inspired by poetry as it is by life and the world." via THE BOSTON GLOBE |
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What Sparks Poetry: Jennifer Chang on Robert Hass's "Meditation at Lagunitas" "After a year of college, I knew I was not going to major in Classics (early class times), Political Science (dry texts), or Philosophy (huh?), so I signed up for a course called Contemporary American Poetry. We met in the afternoon, in a classroom dominated by a wood table that had been worn by age into a dark honey. It was shaped like a pond, a near ellipse, and how it got into the room was unfathomable to me...” |
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