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whole lot of people couldn’t quite perceive, which is
what poets do. But I think this is an
oversimplification of this particular poet. His
poetry impacted on us, we loved it , but we said it
was socio-economic cultural analysis. We tried to
analyze it and it didn’t stand up. Then we got mad
at him; we said he was full of baloney. We rejected
him. Now we look back at him and say he just made
us think of stuff we would never have thought of
before. And I think the more that that thinking is
invested in poetic appetite, the more people are
going to be able to say he left us with a great
legacy. In my eulogy at his funeral I said he was a
pyromaniac of the imagination starting prairie