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The bad lover, like the bad poet, perhaps because of a preoccupation with self, is essentially inattentive, doesn't listen, doesn't anticipate. Or, just as bad, proceeds by rote, first this thing and ...
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Stephen Dunn (b. 1939), U.S. poet, essayist. "Alert Lovers, Hidden Sides, and Ice Travelers," Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs, Norton (1993).
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Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is labo...
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Stephen Dunn (b. 1939), U.S. poet, essayist. "Basketball and Poetry: The Two Riches," Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs, Norton (1993).
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