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  • Media Reviews Re: Lolita

    Ah, already I like this forum! Anyway, Lolita is definitely a work of genius. No doubt. Incredibly disturbing, so much so that I had to put it down several times ...

    Apr 3, 2009
  • Media Reviews Re: The Great Gatsby

    I guess it's a love it or hate it thing, but I couldn't agree more with the OP. It is one of my favorite books of all time and I ...

    Apr 3, 2009


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch