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Diane Seuss Reads Jane Huffman

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Is There a Mirror in Art?

The poem moves from a more concrete experience of reality to something that's internalized and intuitive, conceptual. People used to say about art being a mirror. And it kind of is pased the mirror, it says, you knowa mirror. It's past even the reflection of the reflection, into something maybe like intuition, or like poetry, or like honoring a moment later by trying to recreate it.

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