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Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

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I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

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There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

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There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression.

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What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 27th, 1942

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