[New-Poetry] Stray thoughts on Hall

[David Graham]

As I've said, I think Clifton would be a wonderful choice for Poet  
Laureate.

It'll be interesting to see what Hall does in the post.

Already, I see that a lot of the news coverage on his selection is  
typically reductive--casting him fairly simply as a poet of rural  
nostalgia & grief.  He's certainly those things, true, but his work  
is actually amazingly varied in style, theme, formal experiment,  
tone, and level of political engagement.  His recent selected poems  
covers a remarkable 60 years of writing, and in that time he's done a  
bit of almost everything.  I can't offhand think of another living  
poet from his generation, with the exception of Hayden Carruth, who's  
got more tools in his toolbox.
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