Great Regulars: Yet, lost in the usual Nobel drama

was a larger, stranger and nearly unexplainable fact: While American fiction and theater can boast of at least a few Nobel winners (nine, to be precise), no American poet has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Not one, in more than 100 years.

There are two typical responses to this information.

from David Orr: The New York Times: Yet Once More, a Laurel Not Bestowed

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