News at Eleven: On the subject of poaching

from one's own life, [Donald] Hall quotes an article he wrote for the Hartford Courant: "Young poets sometimes fear, as they begin a life in art, that personal history may become mere material, as if one lived one's life in order to write about it. . . . But as a poet ages, subject to inevitable losses, it becomes appropriate to write out of grief--appropriate, necessary, therapeutic."

from The Christian Science Monitor: The poetry of memories

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