male writers, [Bruce] Smith can sound ambivalent about his vocation: "The artist is a creep with his little boxes, but the athlete is a man/who has stolen glory in all its forms. . . . I'm always a boy/as I sit or stand in the shouting place" (that is, the bleachers) "and breathe the doses of men." Sports may make art look wimpy, but war makes sports seem fake, while art can make war look wrong.
from The New York Times: Poetry for Tough Guys
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