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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 [...]
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 loss [...]
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 years ago [...]
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, too. My [...]
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