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Article: Poetry is not dead.(Arts & Literature)(For years incomprehensible and captive to academia, the art is regaining clarity - and maybe readers, too)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2003
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard
Poetry is coming back.
Yes, yes, I know, for some of you out there it never went anywhere. But for the rest of us, poetry hasn't made any sense since the days of high school, e.e. cummings and Robert Frost. I used to love poetry. But read a contemporary poem? I tried that once, 15 years ago. I'd rather read the phone book.
Now consider all that's happened in the past couple of years:
The United States has a poet laureate, Billy Collins, who writes poems that can be read, understood and enjoyed without a Ph.D. in semiotics. Collins, an affable, balding guy who reads his work on Garrison Keillor, is ...