March 4, 2005
Bollingen Prize Goes to Oft-Lauded but Little-Known U.S. Poet
WRIGHT MINDED: In a September interview with The New York Times Magazine, Ted Kooser, the U.S. poet laureate, was needled for his apparent lack of interest in European poetry.
"Think of all the European poetry I could have read if we hadn't spent all this time on this interview," quipped Mr. Kooser.
Judging from four decades of work, Jay Wright, the winner of the 2005 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, takes a much different view of poetic wayfaring than the poet laureate
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