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• Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

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  Empires, Poet, Modern

  Dana Gioia (2003). “Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

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  Essence, Culture, Losing

  Dana Gioia (2003). “Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

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  Art, Apology, Poetry

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• The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

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  Simple, Sound, Details

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.92, Macmillan

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• We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

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  Pentecost, Has Beens

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.67, Macmillan

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• In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

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  America, Poet, Social

  "James Tate and American Surrealism". Denver Quarterly, Fall 1998.

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