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12.20.2019

against artifice

The poets I most admire need no artifice.

[The language itself being a necessary artifice.]

2 comments:

  1. Joseph Hutchison12:29 PM

    This perplexes me. Can you name, let's say, five poets who "need no artifice"? Thanks!

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  2. JforJames6:50 PM

    I'm talking about the plain-speakers: Cavafy, Linda Gregg, Audre Lorde, Thomas McGrath, Adrienne Rich, come to mind.

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