Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
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- In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.