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For 7 minutes 20 seconds this far-ranging conversation not only took poetry's relevance as a given but got strength from what they found there: "It's so dark...it's remarkable," said Hass of Ledford's poem, which includes the lines "like/slapping the moron beside the bully, we invade Babylon to/applause."
Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011
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Carol, I know your work as Poet laureate of California, with the Get Lit program and others, has you dealing with poetry's relevance on a daily basis.
Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011
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Even readers who need the literal translation can feel something of the poetry's loveliness in Italian, how the vowel-music opens its airy spaces round the lament, makes elegant the complexity of allusion.
Love in literature 2011
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Of course, there's also the wonderful poetic tradition of resistance, that poetry's purpose is to be purposeless: "not mean/But be" as MacLeish wrote; "Poetry makes nothing happen," Auden.
Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011
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But in most discussions of the poem this tension is ignored and only poetry's alleged social impotence remains.
Keeper of the Affirming Flame Brad Leithauser 2011
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Shakespeare's singing charmers from Macbeth and Sexton's "lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind" are some of poetry's most infamous witches.
Halloween Poems Collected By The Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation 2010
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Or is the system an absolute negation of how we should conceptualize poetry's role in the larger society?
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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Ms Hadfield, who will make the selection, said: 'I've always loved the idea of sneaking poetry into unexpected places ... proving that poetry's place is in the real world, in real time.'
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Or is the system an absolute negation of how we should conceptualize poetry's role in the larger society?
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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But today, in our culture, poetry's relevance is in doubt to many: look no further than the recent Tea Party flare-up against the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, the largest annual poetry festival in the country.
Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011
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