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David Yezzi

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Yezzi in 2011

David Dalton Yezzi (born 1966) is an American poet, editor and professor.

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Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

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Interview ( Unterberg Poetry Center) with Ernest Hibert- 'Fiction' The Cortland Review issue 32 June 2006

  • The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.
  • Not every poet is a great reader of his own work.
  • Language has an incantory power. The source qualities of language go to the very roots of our experience of poetry.
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