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Murder on the Poetry Express
The following mélange of doggerel and political vapidity has been offered up by Maya Angelou — not in America, but in (and for) a British newspaper, The Observer. Perhaps this is due to the affection the current British Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, seems to harbor for disposable “poetry.” “With this kind of poem Angelou has decided to interpret public writing as a verbal equivalent of making a poster,” Mr.Read More