News at Eleven: No poet who was "kept poor,"

as Murray believes he and his parents were, sees "nature"--droughts and floods, the relentless summer heat on an uninsulated iron roof--in celebratory terms. Indeed, since the poverty that Murray suffered was an enforced poverty, it is hard even to see "nature" in natural terms. Nature, for him, is the field where human motives, often sinister, play out.

from The New Yorker: Fire Down Below

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