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The Power of Myth
Imagine this. You are a distinguished poet of an older generation, perhaps a poet laureate or tipped for the Nobel Prize. A couple of young colleagues ask you to write a poem, or two, or three, based on a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses that they will assign. Do you phone something in? Do you brush them off? Do you even answer? The fact that no less than 40 poets of the caliber of Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, and Charles Simic turned in some 55 qualit ...more
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