Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Great Regulars: Literature, and in this instance, poetry,

holds a mirror to life; thus the great themes of life become the great themes of poems. Here the distinguished American poet, John Haines, addresses—and celebrates through the affirmation of poetry—our preoccupation with aging and mortality.

Young Man

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 095

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