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at this point, poetry seems to me to be defined in two ways:
the person making something understands it as poetry
it is published as poetry
there's so much activity that happens under this rubric--most all of it under the commercial radar, in that curious gift economy of on-line pieces, chapbooks, broadsides etc. and it seems to have very little in common that it's hard to see much holding it together except that it's all called the same thing.
personally, i've learned alot from reading various poets--particularly mei-mie bursenbrugge lately---but i'm not an avid reader (by comparison with the folk i know who are). i devote quite a bit of attention to writing, for better or worse. but no matter what it looks like, i understand it as prose.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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