Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom a… - Norman Mailer

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Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer (31 January 1923 – 10 November 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director who is considered to have been innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism.

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Pen Names: Andreas Wilson

Birth Name: Norman Kingsley Mailer

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