The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.Philip Levine
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
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Oh, yes,
let's bless the imagination.
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No one says, Children are burning.
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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
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