Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the WorldGregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt div Essays on the craft and relevance of poetry by distinguished practitioners and teachers of the art br /div |
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... Medusa is no mere replay of an ancient figure ; her contemporary embodiment is shaped by all that has intervened between her death and rebirth : She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark . We thought , as she approached , to see ...
... Medusa is no mere replay of an ancient figure ; her contemporary embodiment is shaped by all that has intervened between her death and rebirth : She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark . We thought , as she approached , to see ...
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... Medusa , finding in it the force of her own refused feelings : " I turn your face around ! It is my face . / That frozen rage is what I must explore . . . . " So ends " The Muse as Medusa " by May Sarton , an exploration assured from ...
... Medusa , finding in it the force of her own refused feelings : " I turn your face around ! It is my face . / That frozen rage is what I must explore . . . . " So ends " The Muse as Medusa " by May Sarton , an exploration assured from ...
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... Medusa . Which brings us to pity the monsters we have made of ourselves , to release the winged mind from its errand of illustrating eternity , and free the children at last from their game of freeze tag . Like the pen- guin , our ...
... Medusa . Which brings us to pity the monsters we have made of ourselves , to release the winged mind from its errand of illustrating eternity , and free the children at last from their game of freeze tag . Like the pen- guin , our ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Obstinate Humanity | 23 |
MARIANNE BORUCH | 48 |
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