The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
C.D. Wright
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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.
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I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
- C.D. Wright