“Poetry in general doesn’t do anything, there are just individual poems. Some of them I don’t get, some of them seem banal, some of them change my life. So there you go. It’s bound to be a spectrum, it’s the same with bagels.”
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Anne Carson, in a CBC Interview, 10/30/2016, about Ben Lerner’s book The Hatred of Poetry
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i want to reemphasize that this was an excellent interview and definitely worth setting aside a half hour for
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