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By: Meghan Saar 03/01/2008
Theodore Roethke
The poet who identified best with the criminal Dillinger once wrote to a friend back East, “As the only serious poet within 1,000 miles of Seattle, I find I have something of the status of a bank robber in Oklahoma or a congressman in the deep south.”
His arrival in Seattle would inspire Northwest images and tropes that brought him major literary prizes and established his place in American literature as a regional poet. His final volume The North American Sequence was described by him as “his own spiritual version of a Northwest passage” and is his best work. The auditorium at the University of Washington in Seattle memorializes the poet, who taught on the faculty from 1947 until his death in 1963.
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