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					by  Susan  Aizenberg 			





	
	

				Dear Editor, 



Thanks—specially to Phyllis Rose, herself—for her wonderful essay on Richard Wilbur. I wasn’t “educated under the old curriculum of Great Books and Masterpieces of English Literature” and have major quarrels with that “canon,” but I love and am awed by Wilbur’s work (“For C.” is among my favorite love poems, too) and Rose’s eloquent articulation of its many pleasures was itself a pleasure to read.

		
Omaha, Nebraska
	


	

		Originally Published: December 31, 2005	


	
		
		

	
		

			
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Biography

							
Susan Aizenberg's first full-length collection of poems, Muse (2002), was awarded Virginia Commonwealth University's Larry Levis Prize and the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. She is the coeditor, with Erin Belieu, of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American women (2001). Aizenberg earned an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College and has taught at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She served as poetry editor of The . . . 

							
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