might be the "canary in the mine-shaft.""Of course I was thinking that one of the places and one of the ways of keeping the lovely and precious from dying out would be poetry," he says today. "I think you could extend that to: A whole culture of a country could be kept alive through poetry. So many, many people write in this country that it's quite astonishing."
from Bookslut: An Interview with Galway Kinnell
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