Hayden Carruth
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Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey is 's most recent collection of
works. Published in 1996, it reflects a dark, boozed washed view of the world
throw the eyes of a 76- year-old man. His works reflect his personal experiences
and his opinion on world events. Despite technical merit Carruth works have
become ....
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.... and the National Endowment
for the Arts, most recently in 1995, a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He has won
many awords including the Lenore Marshall Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the
Vermont Governor's Medal, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, the Ruth
Lily Prize, the National Book Award and The National Book Critics' Circle Award
for Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991.
In "Another" Carruth comments on the goal of poetry. He begins by
dismissing truth and beauty;
"Truth and beaut ....
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