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I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

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At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

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Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

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I do a lot of readings.

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I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

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I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: June 20th, 1951

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