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Poetry and fried eggs

“Even the greatest poets can’t express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. The best way to deal with it is to fry eggs for refugees.” — Andrei Codrescu, Romanian refugee and Baton Rouge resident, who has a house full of evacuees from New Orleans (“The entire poetry cadre of the […]

“Even the greatest poets can’t express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. The best way to deal with it is to fry eggs for refugees.”

Andrei Codrescu, Romanian refugee and Baton Rouge resident, who has a house full of evacuees from New Orleans (“The entire poetry cadre of the French Quarter is in my house,” he says.).
Quoted in today’s New York Times Magazine