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Please don't stick me on any list with Russell Edson.
I've seen my name included alongside Edson's in groupings by various critics and commentators re the USAPO scene, and it gripes me . . .
because I have zero in common with that wealthy gentleman Russell Edson.
Rich poets, upperclass poets, huh—
Edson, Louise Gluck, William Matthews, C.K.Williams, Mark Strand, Richard Howard et al,
money rolling out of their childhoods,
cash propping their educations at the best schools,
trustfunds supporting their poetic practices—
I hate them all. I curse them for a penny—
They are nothing to me.
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