short­lined poems celebrating common things like tomatoes, socks and scissors. I felt joyful when I read these odes, and when I began to write my own poems, I tried to remain faithful to the common things of my childhood—dogs, alleys (小巷), my baseball mitt (手套) and the fruit

　　of the valley, especially the orange. I wanted to give these things life, to write so well that my poems would express their beauty.

　　I also admired our own country's poetry. I saw that our poets often wrote about places where they grew up or places that impressed them deeply. James Wright wrote about Ohio and West Virginia, Philip Levine about Detroit, Gary Snyder about the Sierra Nevadas and about Japan, where for years he studied Zen Buddhism (禅宗佛教). I decided to write about the San Joaquin Valley, where my hometown, Fresno, is located.

　　Some of my poems are absolute observations and images of nature—the orange yards, the Kings River, the Sequoias (红杉). I fell in love with the valley, both its ugliness and its beauty, and quietly wrote poems about it to share with others.

　　文章大意：这是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了作者写诗的经历。

　　4．What does the passage mainly talk about?

　　A．The author's experiences with poetry.

　　B．The author's method of writing poetry.

　　C．The author's appreciation of poetry.

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