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"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spirit..." — Marilyn Hacker
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
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