"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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Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

C.D. Wright

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“No brain, no gain. Stay in school.”
“There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.”

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