Letter to Harwood and Lehman from Livingston, III

(c) bill hayward 2008

Dear Stacey and David: This is from The Real West Marginal Way, "Dialogue with Richard Hugo":
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Well I think one thing was that Montana, of course, is vast, and there are a lot of poems lying around just to be picked up, and most of my Montana poems the last few years have come from east of the Divide....That's a funny way for a poet to think about it, but I do think of the world as a kind of hunting ground for poems and that I can find them lying around here and there.  Hopefully always inside myself ultimately. But I am a landscape poet, I guess.  I respond pretty much to the place where I live. 
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