"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersLiterary criticsAcademics from the United KingdomFellows of the Royal Society of LiteraturePoets from Northern Ireland
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Interviewed in Thumbscrew, Spring 1996.
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