this is from a poem of mine:
[poetry is] a frog climbing out
from inside a guitar
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2008/5/20 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
> *From Poetry Daily* -
>
> On Tuesday we (Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/) continue our series of
> prose features with "What Is It Anyway," from *Quote Poet Unquote:
> Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry*, edited by *Dennis O'Driscoll*,
> just out from Copper Canyon Press:
>
> "Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley."
> —*Charles Simic*
>
> "Poetry is energy, it is an energy-storing and an energy-releasing device."
> —*Miroslav Holub*
>
> "Poetry is the eroticization of thought—psychic vitality."
> —*Cal Bedient*
>
> "A poem... is the attire of feeling: the literary form where words seem
> tailor-made for memory or desire."
> —*Carol Ann Duffy*
>
> *From me:*
>
> Please - contribute your own!
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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