Author reveals his ‘secret life’ writing poetry – John Phillip Santos
Tagged: Connecticut, RenoPosted on: December 3rd, 2007
In the late 1970s, John Phillip Santos, a young, award-winning poet, wrote a letter to Laura Riding Jackson, whose poetry he admired. Riding Jackson had renounced poetry after a successful career in the early to mid-20th century because she believed it was not an effective way to reveal truth. In a series of letters, she encouraged Santos to do the same.
“Laura Riding Jackson was a major influence on that part of my life, and it complicated my relationship to poetry,” Santos said in a telephone interview. “It became more of a private thing. I stopped publishing poetry in the early ’80s.”"*
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