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Meyer on poetry

“Poetry celebrates not only presence but the multiplicity of presence & the infinite possibilities of there. The poem has the power of location, it is a place — an actual (not metaphorical!) spatial event of language which begins in the mouth… Continue reading

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Meyer on poetry

“Poetry celebrates not only presence but the multiplicity of presence & the infinite possibilities of there. The poem has the power of location, it is a place — an actual (not metaphorical!) spatial event of language which begins in the… Continue reading

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Epithalamium, by Thomas Meyer

The invitation to your wedding came edged in green the same green lines the envelope, the green of new growth on hemlock just as it looks out my window now at dusk, that green is a green to marry you… Continue reading

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