"The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to li...

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have bey...
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