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Poetry, I tell my students,
is idiosyncratic. Poetry
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Poetry, I tell my students,
is idiosyncratic. Poetry
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is where we are ourselves
(though Sterling Brown said
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is where we are ourselves
(though Sterling Brown said
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“Every ‘I’ is a dramatic ‘I’”),
digging in the clam flats
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“Every ‘I’ is a dramatic ‘I’”),
digging in the clam flats
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for the shell that snaps,
emptying the proverbial pocketbook.
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for the shell that snaps,
emptying the proverbial pocketbook.
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Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
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Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
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overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
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overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
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to get from here to there.
Poetry (and now my voice is rising)
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to get from here to there.
Poetry (and now my voice is rising)
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is not all love, love, love,
and I’m sorry the dog died.
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is not all love, love, love,
and I’m sorry the dog died.
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Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
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Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
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and are we not of interest to each other?
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and are we not of interest to each other?
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