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Posted by Jill on 07.07.2008 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Get Your Poem On, Jill , , , , , ,


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    Like species, poems are not invented, but develop out of a kind of discourse, each poet tensed against another’s poetics, in conversation. — Forrest Gander