The poems haven't been important to me but I did come back to them
recently and 'got' them more, or some of them more, than when I was
young. Something, dare one say, 'straight' about the best of them, the
worst being pretty bad.
J
On Saturday, December 17, 2005, at 09:35 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>> As
>> for the poems -- best that can be said for them is that they suck.
>
> Actually I come back to the poems - the ones particulary when he's
> confronting death are quite moving; the language stays within without
> falling into the pathos of the subject.
> They've been important to me.
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