Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Great Regulars: Wallace Stevens wrote, "People should like

poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it." Poets yielded turf to prosers when Dickens started capturing gritty urban landscapes that people were actually slogging through, while poets kept writing about fairies or knights in armor. That's where your "elevated" artistic sensibility gets you.

from Mary Karr: Publishers Weekly: The Monday Interview

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