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11.22.2010

alien arts allied

The best poems make use of the arts of bricklaying and flower arrangement.

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  1. Anonymous8:55 PM

    I would have said the art of pottery thrown on a kick-wheel and the childish obsession with a solitary game of pick-up sticks.

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  2. I realized after composing that one I was perhaps too close to Carl Sandburg's assertion that 'poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits'.

    Speaking of poetry and pottery, M.C. Richards wrote a good book on that subject called 'Centering in pottery, poetry and the person'.

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