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I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

Sam Hamill
Taken, Swimming, Thinking
Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.