You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
Phyllis Gotlieb
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The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. -
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide. -
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.