A novelist muses on verse

Nicholson Baker
In this 2008 file photo Novelist Nicholson Baker poses outside his home in Berwick, Maine. His latest novel, "The Anthologist," is about a man putting together a volume on poetry can't figure out how to write the introduction.
AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File

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