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We tend to be so bombarded with information. . . This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. . . . poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.

Source: In New York Times, sect. 4, p. 7, 20 Jun 1993.
-- Rita Dove, (Aug 28 1952-____), US poet, educator; Her poetry in Thomas and Beulah, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987; chosen poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1993.

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