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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... give the flow predominance . The difference is underscored by the powerful effects of Holiday's singing on her audience . For a moment her listen- ers become one , and this community , which includes the poet , makes the poet's efforts ...
... give the flow predominance . The difference is underscored by the powerful effects of Holiday's singing on her audience . For a moment her listen- ers become one , and this community , which includes the poet , makes the poet's efforts ...
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... give pleasure , celebrate artifice , react against conven- tion , and illustrate the healthy , complex earthiness of the maker . But how much digression , wildness , lack of control , tumult of style and content can a poem contain ...
... give pleasure , celebrate artifice , react against conven- tion , and illustrate the healthy , complex earthiness of the maker . But how much digression , wildness , lack of control , tumult of style and content can a poem contain ...
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... give us one important answer — even the wild- est , most free - ranging imagination has its themes and obsessions , which it tends to circle around . When , in line 12 , Whitman introduces this metaphor for grass- " And now it seems to ...
... give us one important answer — even the wild- est , most free - ranging imagination has its themes and obsessions , which it tends to circle around . When , in line 12 , Whitman introduces this metaphor for grass- " And now it seems to ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Obstinate Humanity | 23 |
MARIANNE BORUCH | 48 |
Copyright | |
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