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It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

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I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

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Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

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I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

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Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

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As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

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I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

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Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1925

Died: July 6th, 2002

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