Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Great Regulars: It is too easy when writing about

one's memories to slip into dead-end nostalgia. Poet Nancy Powers of Clayton avoids this pitfall by building a poem on solid details. In other words, it builds on these details without giving them a sugar-coated aura.

from Walter Bargen: The Post-Dispatch: Missouri poets: Nancy Powers

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