The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work. (Peter Davison)

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

Peter Davison

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