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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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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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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:
Birds of the Air (2013)
The hidden model (2003)
Azores: Poems (2008)
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