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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