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Unread 12-17-2023, 03:37 PM
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For what it's worth:

I recently read Joshua Mehigan's essay in Literary Matters about the poetry of the late David Ferry, and I was struck by how often Ferry's poems observe other people in compassionate ways. They're about his own experiences, but the focus is not himself.

Of course Ferry does write those more interior poems too, but it seemed worth pointing out that writing about what one has experienced doesn't have to produce moi-poems.
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