[New-Poetry] Wilbur at 85

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At 85, poet Wilbur remains a man of words  

By HILLEL  ITALIE, Associated Press 
First published: Sunday, February 4, 2007  

CUMMINGTON, Mass. - Poetry is not literally in the air as you  drive through 
the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, but as the temperature  cools and 
your cellphone loses its signal, a certain space does open up in your  mind, a 
swell of rhythms from an older and calmer time.

Cummington, a small town once home to 19th-century poet William Cullen  
Bryant, is the primary residence of one of today's most celebrated poets and  
translators, Richard Wilbur. The 85-year-old is a Pulitzer Prize-winner and  former 
U.S. poet laureate, often cited as an heir to Robert Frost and other New  
England writers.


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