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Under The Bridge: Poems By Faith Shepherd With Critical Introduction, Faith Shepherd
Under The Bridge: Poems By Faith Shepherd With Critical Introduction, Faith Shepherd
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The first poem with which I became fully engaged--that is, the first poem with which I interacted beyond one or two readings--was Wallace Stevens' "Autumn Refrain" my senior year in high school. At this point in my life, I was already enamored with literature, and I had written fair amounts of "poetry" for my high school creative writing classes. However, even though I occasionally enjoyed reading poetry and understood that its language tended to be more compact than other types of literature, if I didn't understand a poem after reading it through once or twice I set it aside and …