"Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric."

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I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way onto the page, but I've been reading more and more American poetry and I certainly feel it as quite a freeing force. Coming from the formally ordered tradition of poetry in Ireland, I find the expansiveness of American literature freeing in some sense.

— Nick Laird