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More hits than Shakespeare
I'm on a poetry jag. John Updike tells the Poetry Foundation that poetry is the "exercise of language at the highest pitch.'' He says he would have written more of it if it paid as well as fiction.
His poem, "Ex-Basketball Player,'' gets more hits on the foundation's site than Shakespeare.
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