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Robert Adamson is Poet of the Month

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October 2014, no. 365

Robert Adamson is Poet of the Month

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October 2014, no. 365

Which poets have most influenced you?

First encounters sink deep: Shelley, Blake, Hopkins, Yeats. The Revelators in my youth: Rimbaud, Lorca, Hart Crane. The Golden Codgers of middle age: Mallarmé, Emily Dickinson, Lorine Niedecker, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and David Malouf. Life Support: Wallace Stevens and Thomas Traherne. The Diamond-headed hard men of technique: Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and James McAuley’s last four books.

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  • We share a love of a large number of poets named herein. Ultimately, no surprise… A pleasure to read...
    Posted by David Gitin
    05 October 2014

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