Poetry Stories: Adjustments
Chapter 45. Resisting the urge to answer.
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So many poems arise from tragedy, he thought, wondering why it wasn’t more common for adjusters to write. Sure, plenty of famous poets had a hand in the insurance business—Stevens, Eliot, Collins, Kooser. But they were execs or worked on the banking or sales side. The ones who experienced real poem-fodder up close every single day were the claims folks.
—from chapter 45