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Language has an incantory power. The source qualities of language go to the very roots of our experience of poetry.

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The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.

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David Yezzi

David Yezzi

Born: 1966 (age 59)
Bio: David Dalton Yezzi is an American poet, editor, actor and professor. He currently teaches poetry in the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.
Known for:
  1. Birds of the Air (2013)
  2. The hidden model (2003)
  3. Azores: Poems (2008)

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