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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... language that goes by it and through which it moves , or is even dragged . Not farming , but the making of the poems is the poet's work , but like the realm of planting and harvesting to which the image of the plough sends us , the ...
... language that goes by it and through which it moves , or is even dragged . Not farming , but the making of the poems is the poet's work , but like the realm of planting and harvesting to which the image of the plough sends us , the ...
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... language is not in the complexity of the syntax , as in Williams , but in the formal parallelisms that organize the riddles so that they pile up on us faster than we can answer them . Because this is a poem , rather than another kind of ...
... language is not in the complexity of the syntax , as in Williams , but in the formal parallelisms that organize the riddles so that they pile up on us faster than we can answer them . Because this is a poem , rather than another kind of ...
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... language itself to suggest this physical power of poetry - was echoed years later by Mandelstam , who said that the language of Boris Pasternak's po- ems made them such powerful breathing exercises that , if recited re- peatedly , they ...
... language itself to suggest this physical power of poetry - was echoed years later by Mandelstam , who said that the language of Boris Pasternak's po- ems made them such powerful breathing exercises that , if recited re- peatedly , they ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Obstinate Humanity | 23 |
MARIANNE BORUCH | 48 |
Copyright | |
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