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Poetry allows me to say the thing without a million conjectures. It leaves a lot of space and allows words to resonate and connect without me having to take you there . . . because of the conventions of poetry, I can say things that are understood as a gate to the truth.
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We are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
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“Ty is, you know, tied in a knot. On a very old shoe.”
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Max Ritvo passed away on August 23, 2016. Earlier this summer, he spoke with Sarah Blake about his debut collection Four Reincarnations, writing with and about cancer, and how language is a game.
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Poet and writer Brian Blanchfield talks about his essay collection Proxies, touring in support of a prose collection versus a poetry collection, and frottage.
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I’m thinking about the difference between “I stay somewhere” and “I live somewhere.”
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