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Yezzi was born in albany, new york, and earned a bachelors degree in theater from carnegie mellon university and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from columbia university school of the arts career. Soon after, he established a lifelong connection to italy that began with a move to the island of ischia, and ended at the bogliasco foundation, where he wrote his final poems in 2004. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. The book opens with an epigraph from allen tate suggesting that the poet responds to divine absence by choosing a reciprocal estrangement from the created world, withdrawing. He has also edited the swallow anthology of new american. Back at home, its hard how people dont know im an artist.
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