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| "Watsonville Road Vista in Oils," by Ken Marks |
My poet friend Ralph sewed the seed of this question last Saturday during our river walk in Hillsborough. We had been discussing poetry and I mentioned Philip Larkin. Ralph showed little interest in Larkin, which surprised me. He said that Larkin's poetry was too narrowly focused on small life, too constricting. He preferred "expansive" poetry like that, say, of the Sufis.
