James Dickey's Quote - I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey

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