But poetry is a way of language it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people.
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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry but then I won the award for physical training.
