"Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical."

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There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.

— Walter Kirn