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Maxwell on Walcott
Glyn Maxwell, whom I admired in a previous post, writes about poetry instead of poets. That’s why I always read him when I see his name. Here’s a quote from his recent Guardian piece on Derek Walcott’s latest book:
To write in received forms is not to render verse doggedly metric or singsong (to the modern ear that’s the province of light verse, or performance poetry); it is to carry in the new line the echo of the old. Just as the living creature brings nothing but the past to each moment, the poet brings nothing but poetry’s past to the white space he has to cross to stay alive.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: February 19, 2007
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