Tuesday, September 15, 2009

News at Eleven: The 52-year-old American writer [Nicholson Baker],

whose eighth novel, The Anthologist, a rich musing on the world of poetry, was released Tuesday, is on the phone from his home in South Berwick, Maine, a town of 7,000 on the New Hampshire line.

"I'm hoping that people will come away from the book and think poetry is wasteful and inefficient and there's a lot of bad poetry," he says. "On the other hand, I want them to see that there's a kind of greatness to [poetry] that you can't get anywhere else."

from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Of droll, balmy Paul Chowder and his poetically lived life

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