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Dan Burt
B. 1942
The verse flexes muscle after muscle...The writing...can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. - George Szirtes
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August Kleinzahler
B. 1949
A reckless tumble of words mixing the high and the low, like a rummage sale after the death of someone who adored both Shakespeare and smut. Norman Mailer
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Li-Young Lee
B. 1957
His poems are made from his life with his life; his poems are earned. He dares to be simple. And he is surely among the finest young poets alive. - The American Poetry Review
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Carolyn Forché
B. 1950
The poem might be our only evidence that an event has occurred: it exists for us as the sole trace of an occurrence. - Carolyn Forche
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Bill Manhire
B. 1946
I suppose what I really like is to set up a system which looks wonderfully secure when you first encounter it on the page, but within the framework there are crazy things which tip the reader off-balance. - Bill Manhire
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Ted Kooser
B. 1939
I try to honor my reader's patience and generosity by presenting what I have to say as clearly and succinctly as possible. - Ted Kooser
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Robert Hass
B. 1941
Poetry is a way of living...a human activity like baking bread or playing basketball. - Robert Hass
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C. K. Williams
B. 1939 D. 2015
C. K. Williams is a wonderful poet, in the authentic American tradition of Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, who tells us on every page what it means to be alive in our time. - Stanley Kunitz
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Michael Longley
B. 1939
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney
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Sebastian Barker
B. 1945 D. 2014
Look for the opening of your spirit into the real world. This is the world in which your words ring true - Sebastian Barker
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Penelope Shuttle
B. 1947
In my poetry I give primacy to the breath. For me it is the way the poem breathes that gives it form. - Penelope Shuttle