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Words , he says , are exchanged for ideas , as money is for goods ( a fascinating
parallel between economy and ethnology ) . The comparison is quite fruitful , if
one forgets that : ( 1 ) a word generally corresponds to a single idea ...
Words , he says , are exchanged for ideas , as money is for goods ( a fascinating
parallel between economy and ethnology ) . The comparison is quite fruitful , if
one forgets that : ( 1 ) a word generally corresponds to a single idea ...
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Having ideas doesn ' t guarantee anything , either , but lack of them has
contributed to the demise of a number of poets in our time . ” He then offers
Theodore Roethke as an example of the prototype : “ full of energies directed all
over the place ...
Having ideas doesn ' t guarantee anything , either , but lack of them has
contributed to the demise of a number of poets in our time . ” He then offers
Theodore Roethke as an example of the prototype : “ full of energies directed all
over the place ...
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The disassociation and recombination of ideas of the Cubists , the free
association of ideas of the Surrealists , dreams , trance states , the poetry of
preliterate people — all have been absorbed into the practice of modern poetry . ”
Probably ...
The disassociation and recombination of ideas of the Cubists , the free
association of ideas of the Surrealists , dreams , trance states , the poetry of
preliterate people — all have been absorbed into the practice of modern poetry . ”
Probably ...
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Contents
The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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| Title | A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry |
| Author | Sam Hamill |
| Publisher | Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 1 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0887482252, 9780887482250 |
| Length | 229 pages |
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