News at Eleven: "It is the nature of our culture,"

[Robert] Pinsky said, "that we do not have a unifying folk tradition to pass on the poems, stories, jokes, riddles and recipes."

Unlike other cultures where grandparents fill that roll, the United States has a myriad of cultures. He explained how teachers and librarians have become our society's agents for the transfer of folk tradition, passing the culture from generation-to-generation.

from Norwich Bulletin: Robert Pinksy shares poetry wisdom
also The Boston Globe: Hanging with . . . Robert Pinsky

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