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By listening attentively to the telling , the teller clarifies the vision . To listen is to
know . The first words were undoubtedly imitative utterances of perceived sounds
: bird calls , monkey chatter . This primitive language was rooted , as our own ...
By listening attentively to the telling , the teller clarifies the vision . To listen is to
know . The first words were undoubtedly imitative utterances of perceived sounds
: bird calls , monkey chatter . This primitive language was rooted , as our own ...
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He tells us the rich pay taxes enough already . He explains how nuclear power is
safe . He dumbs things down just right . John F. Kennedy had Robert Frost .
Jimmy Carter had James Dickey . Nixon didn't have a poet . Carter had an
evening ...
He tells us the rich pay taxes enough already . He explains how nuclear power is
safe . He dumbs things down just right . John F. Kennedy had Robert Frost .
Jimmy Carter had James Dickey . Nixon didn't have a poet . Carter had an
evening ...
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because I am young , and because I have almost nothing to tell ; it is my place to
listen now , watching the faces and gestures ... Moreover , he tells us , most of the
writing of The Stars , the Snow , the Fire took place away from his homestead .
because I am young , and because I have almost nothing to tell ; it is my place to
listen now , watching the faces and gestures ... Moreover , he tells us , most of the
writing of The Stars , the Snow , the Fire took place away from his homestead .
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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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