Just thought I'd tell you how much I enjoyed this interview. Of course, being a poet who writes mainly in "free" verse, I disagree on some points. Though not as many as you'd think. I'm not much into navel-gazing, for instance. And I'm not even sure that Auden was right about all poetry being memorable speech. I'm an Ashbery fan etc. But it's good to have something to challenge us; and I'm increasingly of the opinion that a training in meter is good for the free-verser as well as the metrist.
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Steve Waling
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