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Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Is It Poetry or Perfect?

i'm trying to let poetry win. But sometimes, and i think maybe this is a pandemic thing, it's hard to let it win. I almost feel like looking over the poem again. The words that don't conform to the arsound start to stick out even more. That does seem to me to be an ode to whatever poetry is,. To whatever poetry makes that is beyond the concrete and beyond even affection. It's its kind of a concentration of sounds, which i love.

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