is a crucial factor in a poet's legacy. The idea a poet should consider retiring is outrageous and absurd, and yet I've been reading a lot lately about older poets, poets in their 80s who are publishing "new" work that is repetitive and/or inferior to work written in their prime. This raises the issue of whether a poet has an obligation--call it the function of a moral or social conscience--to willingly give up publishing at some point, if that work is no longer equal to or better than what they produced at the peak of their careers.from Anthony Maulucci: Norwich Bulletin: Publishing inferior work can damage writer's reputation
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