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David Wagoner
Tuesday, October 30th, 2001
may not necessarily be my favorite poet, but I own eleven of his books of poetry, at least six more books than by any other poet.
Maybe I enjoy Wagoner’s poetry because he taught the first English class I ever took at the University of Washington or because he taught the first section of the year-long [...]
A Place to Stand
Tuesday, October 8th, 2002
The first thing I noticed when starting to read David Wagoner’s new book Traveling Light is that some of my favorite poems have been dropped from the collection. Wagoner’s first book was titled A Place to Stand, and the title poem has long been one of my favorite poems.
Ironically, the poem explores the [...]
Every Good Boy Does Fine
Monday, October 14th, 2002
Part 3 of David Wagoner’s “Traveling Light :From Collected Poems, 1956-1976” focuses on various aspects of creativity. While I found more poems I liked here than I anticipated (I’m not too fond of artists discussing creativity), my favorite poem was still one entitled “Every Good Boy Does Fine, ” a poem I encountered [...]
Every Secret is as Near as …
Wednesday, October 16th, 2002
Traveling Light unlike Wagoner’s last collection of poems includes selections from his earlier volume of poetry called Who Will be the Sun? Sometimes I think having lived in the Northwest so long that I, like the Northwest Indians, also see nature in everything. Ravens, Salmon, and Killer Whale have grown sacred to me, [...]
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