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Poetry

ananda

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4. I blame Ezra Pound.

Reply to Petrushka (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 05:44 PM

Aug 2015

It's truly sad what's happened to poetry in America... no respect for the genre and its artistry at all.

Actually, I blame the egregore that has infected minds here and is spreading like a contagion
of maniacal nano-wasps through so many brains.

But I will always like what I like and write what I like.

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I blame Ezra Pound. ananda Aug 2015 #4

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