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"Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what ..." — Yusef Komunyakaa
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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View AllI define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.— Yusef Komunyakaa
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