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“ What does poet laureate mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now. ”

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But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

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Nicholson Baker Death Life

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

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Nicholson Baker Poetry Prose

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

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Nicholson Baker Poetry

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

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