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By Alexander Wells

The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.

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For Cortez, poetry was not about mastery of form. Poetry in the mouth of the Firespitter was the creation of form.

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Song: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed...

By Amelia Opie
A youth for Jane with ardour sighed,
The maid with sparkling eye;
But to his vows she still replied...
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Aram Saroyan

B. 1943
Aram Saroyan is a poet, novelist, memoirist, and playwright. He attended the University of Chicago, …. Read More

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