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Ars PoeticasJuliana Spahr During the time of an increasingly powerful alt right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht's question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times. The answer that Brecht provides is that yes, that poets will sing of the dark times. In the six ars poeticas that Spahr writes, she sings of

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I found my real home— / land so worthless a man's got a perfect right / to do absolutely nothing

over kunst en vooral over het voortschrijden van de seizoenen

and long and short feelings do lapses in time allow

and children’s book writer living in Atlanta

just juxtaposed bouquets

education and tradition

bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since his death in 1986

" – Alice Notley

a neologism that translates to "word weapons" or "word arms

the dull and perfect void we all inhabit and never

pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins

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