Craft: Music

Roethke, Komunyakaa, Le Guin, "Max Roach/Max Ernst," "But Beautiful," Yeats, Coleman, Oliver

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Theodore Roethke:

There is always a tension in a poem between sense and music. The making of a poem means moving a fulcrum between “pure sound” and “straight sense,” and a poem can’t completely be either. The balance i…