I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn’t be such a big deal.
Big Deal
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
Well, it’s a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.