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November 16, 2004

Poetry

“Poetry is a dark art, a form of magic, because it tries to change the way we perceive the world. That is to say that it aims to make the texture of our perception malleable.

It does so by surreptitious and devious means, by seeding and planting things in the memory and imagination of the reader with such a force and insidious originality that they cannot be deprogrammed”

Don Patterson, poet

Posted by john at November 16, 2004 02:48 PM

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