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WoodyHaut@aol.com wrote:
> Poets can't write "mysteries"? In my opinion,
you're
> not only selling Dobyns
> short, but you're forgetting the likes of
Kenneth
> Fearing, James Sallis,
> James W. Hall, Charles Willeford and, need I
say,
> Raymond Chandler. Not to
> mention Richard Hugo and Jack Spicer, both of
whom
> wrote one-off crime
> novels. And there are undoubtedly others.
I'm not sure I'd call ALL THE KING'S MEN a mystery, but it's
not exactly not a mystery, either. Robert Penn Warren was, of
course, the first poet laureate of the U.S.
> Personally, I would reverse your
> rule: always read a mystery/crime/detective
novel
> written by a poet.
Amen to that. If the editors would just agree...
G.
(published poet, unpublished detective writer)
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hand, just get out the way, let the gentleman do his
thing."
George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry Journal
http://www.lightningbell.org/
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