Tuesday 15 September 2020

Darrell Epp : part two

How did you first engage with poetry? 

The first poem that knocked me out was 'Alone' by Edgar Allan Poe. I still love it. Killers lines, startling images, a great surprising ending, hypnotic rhythm--it's got it all. And, some lines in the Richmond Lattimore translation of Aeschylus hit me so hard, that I did think, 'Wouldn't it be great to write something that thrilled a reader the way this thrilled me...?" Still working at it!

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