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Given the tragedy which marked most of these poets' brief lives, it is hard to imagine them as role models. But for the latest generation of Harvard poets--who have started their writing careers in the past decade--those prominent writers from the 1940s to the '60s have provided them...
Although members of the newest generation say they could not avoid feeling that they were part of a grand tradition of Harvard poets when they studied here, the prominence of their teachers often put them at a distance in the classroom.
Many of them say they were launched into the real world of publishing from the editorial boards of The Harvard Advocate and Padan Aram, where Zarin says she sometimes found it even harder to get her work published than she has outside of Harvard.
But members of the new generation say that writing has been less a choice than a necessity for them. Like their predecessors, the new poets see poetry as a way to express--and get through--life's tragedies.
Eileen Simpson, Berryman's wife, agrees that the older generation of literary artists used their writing to help them survive their many difficult experiences. In her book, Poets in Their Youth, she writes that for her husband, "the only thing was to write poetry. All else was wasted time."