Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Great Regulars: Jeffrey Brown: Another thing that comes through here

is a kind of simplicity of language, of form.

W.S. Merwin: I'm so glad you say that, because I have been trying, since I was 30, at least, to write more simply and more directly. I like the idea that sometimes one hears poetry as though one were overhearing it, you know?

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS NewsHour: Author W.S. Merwin Named U.S. Poet Laureate

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