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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

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If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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