John Fuller
John Fuller
John Fuller FRSLis an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 January 1937
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When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.
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It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
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It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.
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Poetry surprises us with what we already know.
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I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.
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Overall, our restaurants are still doing fine. We just had a lot of expenses this go-around.
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It is certainly nothing like what Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana had to deal with, but the efforts are still ongoing.
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We could make good use out of them.
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We were just trying to think of a way to help out the town.
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We always coordinate our efforts with FEMA and the state EOC, (Emergency Operations Command).
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Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
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Now we are being told to stay put, because there is the possibility that our resources will be needed here.
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This generation is so visual. You can't keep putting worksheets in front of them. They buy into this.
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If not for the chief coming by, at least one of our stallions would be dead,