The American Poetry Review, January 1st, 1993
A doctor, trained in pediatrics and child psychology, has been teaching literature since 1975 to medical students at Harvard University. Having spent the previous ten years among indigent workers in various countries, he tries to use the literature of Raymond Carver and William Carlos Williams to acquaint his students, most of whom come from a privileged background, with the realities of life in the lower classes. Carver's work has become a mainstay because of his grasp of the human condition in many forms.
During the past decade I have been calling upon novelists, short story writers, poets ...
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