“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Doris Betts
06.04.1932 - PresentDoris Betts is fiction writer from North Carolina. Is an alumni distinguished professor at UNC Chapel Hill. Her short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim” was adapted into the academy award winning short film “Violet,” and later a New York Drama Critics Circle Award winning musical. Treasured Carolinian.
"If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them."
— Doris Betts on the attributes of a Southern drawl.
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
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