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...Belichick "blinks about as frequently as Clint Eastwood in a Sergio Leone film." This isn't just wit. This seems to me to be the point of sportscasters. Football, like all your big American pastimes, is a metaphorical arena. So who better to announce it than this country's poet laureate of simile? It's not just a game. Sports are analogies for all our finest hopes and truest dreams. Hey, I never said I stopped watching Bob Costas' lofty basketball play-by-play...
Stanley J. Kunitz '26 will be the country's tenth poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Monday, succeeding Robert Pinksy in October as the nation's top poet...
...significance to me even though I do not believe any poet can really qualify as poet laureate in the multiple society of the United States," he said. "It makes me think of Whitman calling us the nation of nations...
Kunitz will receive a $35,000 salary and an office at the Library of Congress, and he says that as poet laureate he hopes to encourage poets from the many different parts of society...
...professor and I took a composition course with him. His assignment each day was a one-page piece of any sort and I sent him every day a prose piece," Kunitz said. "He wrote on one of them you sound like a poet, why don't you write poetry...