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Suspicions of Poetry

BBC Radio 3
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We live-Americans and English-in societies that suspect poetry: just being a poem gets a bunch of words suspected. If this opinion is general, maybe poets themselves share it; I see more and more evidence that American poets are suspicious of poetry.'
Donald Hall surveys and illustrates some developments in recent American verse. BBC Manchester

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Donald Hall
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