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"So often shaken—it is the voice"
Mort, Zukofsky, Oppen, Ferry, Moe
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"and a horn, a tangent, leads me to rest"
O'Hara, Huseinova, Hirsch, Paterson, Deelder
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Craft: Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra (1914-2018) was a Chilean poet and physicist and the innovator of “antipoetry.” Antipoetry rejected mysticism and sentimentality and…
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"to widen instead the tube of that measure"
Mitchell, Hamilton, Ammons, Mtshali, Roberson
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"Breathe on me still, star, sister"
Frank, Lerman, Ferenčhová, Gravendyk, Jarrell
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"your arms of burnt air"
Hayden, Celan, Williams, Valentine, Howe
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Craft: Joe Bolton
The scene is twilit, the mood existential, the outlook tragic.—Joe Bolton, on his own poems
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"partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches"
Hollander, Jones, Gillespie, Lehman, O'Hara
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"in the field goldenrod blackened"
Grossbardt, Parra, Kumin, James, Strand
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"drain of night"
Anakreon, Kito, Oswald, Chaliand, Martin
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Paging: AIDS and the Art of Living
In 1989 every Thursday at 3 p.m.
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"Untuned, unstrung"
Kaufman, Herbert, Seferis, Hannaham, Creeley, Stern
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