News at Eleven: What makes a poem stand out

to him, [Donald] Hall says, is the beauty of its sound.

"I look also for poems of emotional content, that are clear, not sentimental, but emotional," he says.

In his own work, he tries to craft his words into an aesthetic whole, "like a little piece of sculpture," he says.

from The Harvard Crimson: For Poet Laureate, In Vino Veritas

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