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Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

The New Yorker: Poetry

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I Love an Ode

i love an ode. And i think odes have that quality of direct address. A if you're a neruda, you're talking to laziness. Or, you know, luciol clifton,. You're talking to your hips, or to your hair, or you're praising the body. How do you take the ode more generally, and how does this fit for you? Well, im like other poems by jane a, i think she's very intentional in naming it ode without ode to andrea, ode to horse. Horse rides a so ode becomes another archetype in the poem. So it falls back on us just where we started

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