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Essays on Poetic Theory
    • By Ann Lauterbach 1998

      In May 1998, the critic Michael Brenson organized a symposium at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York at which a number of people in the arts were asked to consider...

    • By Nathaniel Mackey 2005

      Performance is a bothersome word for writerly poets. Performance art, poetry slams, and the like have made the term synonymous with theatricality, a recourse to dramatic, declamatory, and other tactics...

    • By Gertrude Stein 1925

      There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different at which they are...

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