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The difficulty of even trying to represent India’s vast constellation of poetries is a fourth: one wants to ask if there’s even a good reason, beyond nationalism, to try and select an “Indian” portfolio.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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As for your point about Marjorie Perloff, I haven't read the piece in question, but I know that Marjorie Perloff has done much to promote "poetries" as opposed to "poetry."
LEMON HOUND Lemon Hound 2007
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(Of course there are poetries that are written more for ego-display than for contemplation.)
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In time, there is no such thing as a dead-end, and if there are tendencies in our current poetries that betray the legacies of modernism, they are those which refer back to symbolism and the fetishizing of the poem-object.
Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry at a Dead-End? Prominent Poets Speak Out Anis Shivani 2010
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The human form divine, the Body Electric, and the compositional methods that urge our poetries to the newest available reality--these are the preoccupations of my modernism.
Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry at a Dead-End? Prominent Poets Speak Out Anis Shivani 2010
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To see-as theologically means to enter into Zwicky's ideas on metaphor and create poetries that mark our progress on the way of Jesus.
Jason Derr: The Role of Poetry in Religious Knowledge Jason Derr 2010
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We seek less to tell the absolutes of what we must believe and more to articulate the poetries that express how we believe and which draw us deeper contemplation and discipleship.
Jason Derr: The Role of Poetry in Religious Knowledge Jason Derr 2010
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The human form divine, the Body Electric, and the compositional methods that urge our poetries to the newest available reality--these are the preoccupations of my modernism.
Anis Shivani: Is American Poetry At A Dead-End? Anis Shivani 2010
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The catch, of course, is to sustain the momentum by getting more of these poetries into the world despite relatively low distribution due, in part, to poetry's marginalized position in the capitalist value system.
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The catch, of course, is to sustain the momentum by getting more of these poetries into the world despite relatively low distribution due, in part, to poetry's marginalized position in the capitalist value system.
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