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"I do not take myself seriously as a poet," said Willa Cather in a 1925 interview. Having by then published many short stories and six novels (of an eventual twelve) and having won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours (1922), Willa Cather was already established as a major American writer of fiction. Yet her first published book had been April Twilights (1903), a poetry collection, and, though her total output of verse was small (fewer than eighty-five poems--even including translations, juvenilia, and pseudonymous works, some of which can never be officially attributed), she included thirty-five poems in her collected works, The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather (1937-1941), the repository of writing she judged her best. How, then, do we interpret her statement: frank evaluation, deprecation, invitation to contradiction? Any of these attitudes could be valid for Willa Cather, who to the end of her life was both brash and inquisitive, upstart child and tradition-bound, civilized lady.
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