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Clearly, Once The Student Is No Longer A Student The Possibilities Of Relationship Are Enlarged.

I Don't Know Whether A Poem Has Be There To Help To Develop Something. I Think It's There For Itself, For What The Reader Finds In It.

We Sometimes Received - And I Would Read - 200 Manuscripts A Week. Some Of Them Were Wonderful, Some Were Terrible; Most Were Mediocre. It Was Like The Gifts Of The Good And Bad Fairies.

The Phenomenon Of University Creative Writing Programs Doesn't Exist In France. The Whole Idea Is Regarded As A Novelty, Or An Oddity.

Perhaps First And Foremost Is The Challenge Of Taking What I Find As A Reader And Making It Into A Poem That, Primarily, Has To Be A Plausible Poem In English.