Ernie imagines what it would be like if Geoffrey Hill (a poet I love, too) got the job - and he also wrote a very funny parody of Hill to show the absurdity. ("Public sound, perforce within late gray light, Worst excesses purported, dead fur struck to asphalt") - like: what?? Funny!!
Posted by sheila | TrackBackthe new poet laureate was jean's teacher at unh! hooray! i remember randomly reading one of his books and jean was like, "he was my professor!"
Posted by: siobhan at August 3, 2007 12:40 PMsiobhan - I didn't know that! I'll have to ask Jean about him!
Posted by: red at August 3, 2007 12:45 PM