When I was just old enough to start thinking I should aspire to be president (about eight), I decided my first policy would be to send a poet to the moon. Naturally, the poet would be escorted by qualified astronauts like Neil Armstrong, but we needed a poet so we could really know what was up there . Someone , as Frost said in “Choose Something Like a Star,” who would use language we can comprehend. I needed something less trite than literal small steps becoming figurative large leaps. I...
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