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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... stands up straight . The sea painting and the forest painting darken together . Also the foliage of the five - story trees is turning black . “ Every summer is the last . " These are empty words for the creatures at late summer midnight ...
... stands up straight . The sea painting and the forest painting darken together . Also the foliage of the five - story trees is turning black . “ Every summer is the last . " These are empty words for the creatures at late summer midnight ...
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... stands almost still in the grass , feelers sucked in and rolled out , disturbance and hesitation . . . How like myself in my searching ! The wind that blew so carefully all day- all the blades of grass are counted on the furthest islets ...
... stands almost still in the grass , feelers sucked in and rolled out , disturbance and hesitation . . . How like myself in my searching ! The wind that blew so carefully all day- all the blades of grass are counted on the furthest islets ...
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... stands on the high walls of Troy presides over a field of corpses and a burning city ; she comes down to our time as a grotesque , the aging Elizabeth Taylor , the simultaneous literalizing and unmasking of the Western myth of beauty ...
... stands on the high walls of Troy presides over a field of corpses and a burning city ; she comes down to our time as a grotesque , the aging Elizabeth Taylor , the simultaneous literalizing and unmasking of the Western myth of beauty ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Obstinate Humanity | 23 |
MARIANNE BORUCH | 48 |
Copyright | |
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