David Burchard

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This poor woman’s poetry—which is brought up here only to help us make sense of the larger narrative—was the kind of poetry that focused on how the poet felt. True, there is not much here to distinguish it from the vast watery sea of how all the other poets felt, but Taki-Smith had a peculiar genius for it. Her volume of verse that had won the Pulitzer Prize was not titled The Pale Parabola of Joy, but it might as well have been.
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