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Harriet Goes to the Movies

Originally Published: April 29, 2009

Throughout the month of April, the National Post, a paper up here in Canada (or down here, if you live in Wasilla or something) has been conducting brief E-mail interviews with poets, for its books blog. I thought I would reproduce one of the quirkier questions here: “Novels are always being adapted into movies. What are some poems that deserve the Hollywood treatment?”

(My answer to this question, by the way, was: “Not Beowulf.”)

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