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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

poems for Feb 22 and 29

The Tao of Touch by Marge Piercy
The Moose -- Elizabeth Bishop
The Snake—D.H. Lawrence
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through – D.H. Lawrence
To the Hawks
McNamara, Rusk, Bundy (by Donald Justice)

Unwise Purchases – George Bilgere

The art most attentive to pattern is poetry. For the next two weeks, we will look at
how rhythm and syntax operate in poems, and what effect this has on our response as reader. The Bishop, Lawrence, Justice poems cited above come from Ellen Bryant Voigt's book, "The Art of Syntax" (rhythm of thought, rhythm of song).

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