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... implies serious study or comprehension of the poem or painting itself . As soon
as we understand why Gauguin painted those bare breasts on the platter with the
melons , we will “ understand ” the painting . Perhaps he thought it was funny .
... implies serious study or comprehension of the poem or painting itself . As soon
as we understand why Gauguin painted those bare breasts on the platter with the
melons , we will “ understand ” the painting . Perhaps he thought it was funny .
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Perhaps what he saw was both lovely and funny . Perhaps it was neither
particularly lovely nor particularly funny , only the world of Gauguin at the time he
was painting island life . The painting , like a poem , is not psychoanalysis . But
fads in ...
Perhaps what he saw was both lovely and funny . Perhaps it was neither
particularly lovely nor particularly funny , only the world of Gauguin at the time he
was painting island life . The painting , like a poem , is not psychoanalysis . But
fads in ...
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Perhaps the media recognizes Brodsky as a poet because routine iambics and
predictable rhymes are themselves immediately recognizable as verse . His
prosody , lacking the sophistication of an Ezra Pound , say , or a Rilke , is
perfectly ...
Perhaps the media recognizes Brodsky as a poet because routine iambics and
predictable rhymes are themselves immediately recognizable as verse . His
prosody , lacking the sophistication of an Ezra Pound , say , or a Rilke , is
perfectly ...
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Contents
The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A Poet's Work: The Other Side of Poetry |
| Author | Sam Hamill |
| Contributors | Malloy Lithographing (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Broken Moon Press |
| Publisher | Broken Moon Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0913089036, 9780913089033 |
| Length | 229 pages |
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