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Date:
12/22/2022 10:05:55 AM
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RE: Having missed St. Lucy's Day
Great answer!
I never got much into poetry despite (or because of) the classes I took, but my wife is a huge fan of Modernist poetry (especially Eliot, Stevens, and Marianne Moore) and I ended up reading some of her favorites just to hold a conversation. You're right about good poets being technicians. There's an elegant precision in great poetry you don't see often even in great prose--I'd maybe say that McCarthy's Suttree is the exception to the rule here, but you could probably argue that it's really just one long prose poem.
Nobody asked, but here's one of my favorites. Certainly isn't Modernist, though:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=34457
