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When Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) completed his Commedia sometime in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, he broke new literary ground by becoming the first Italian poet or produce a formal aesthetic work in the volgare, the native tongue of Tuscany...
...hoping to talk to someone who did makethe decision to become a poet," said Chang, who istrying to decide between English or Literature andEconomics for her concentration...
...High Road to Taos, Edmunds's first collection, was chosen by poet Donald Hall as a 1993 National Poetry Series winner. His poems have previously appeared in The New Yorker, Southwest Review and anthologies of young poets...
...later in the poem, the speaker insists to his lover, "I want you." At this point the reader may be tempted to respond, "I don't think so." But perhaps a fistfull of red-dirt and a few dead roses would more adequately convey her regrets in the poet's own language...
Edmunds's passion, painted in memory and reflection, soon dries to an uninteresting shade of melancholy. His inability to seem wholly present in his own memories weakens the collection. To move a reader, the poet must seem able to move himself, if only to show signs of life...