Toward the actor's declamation or the calligrapher's pen, the attitude that the poem's medium is the MIND, not the voice or the flourish of the pen. The opposite view: the poem that needs to be embodied in a particular presentation.


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"Poets and Writers." Nobdy would say "Novelists and Writers." Like the bookstore pleonasm "Literature and Fiction"?

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Poets with whom I've gone to school, that is, taken to the limits of obsession. I once compiled a list of all the writers I had studied to such an extent, whether professionally or personally. I wish I could find it, a document lurking on my hard drive somewhere.