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Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

Poem Talk

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Is There a Difference Between Speech and Still Performance?

"Where have you been all my life? That was such a really, really amazing thing that you just said. Dag, you were going to say something." "I like how that word picks up on this tension that's been building up throughout the poem," she says of an enigmatic line in her piece. 'It's truth value is in its declaration, right? Like it, these accents seem their own defense'

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