Photo: #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.
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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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A novelist muses on verse

Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/09/2009, 10:06 a.m.

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A man putting together a volume on poetry can't figure out how to write the introduction. As his main character struggles, novelist Nicholson Baker illuminates the art of verse.

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  • Nicholson Baker: author of "The Anthologist." He's also the author of many other works of fiction and nonfiction, including "Human Smoke."

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