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Poetics

Cut With the Kitchen Knife

By Rosmarie Waldrop, Ben Lerner,

We conventionally use the period to punctuate a finished thought. But Rosmarie Waldrop, one of the most innovative poets in English, deploys the period as a rest, often musical, in…

The irresistible beauty of all things

By Federico García Lorca, Translated by Christopher Maurer,

Like fragments in hard voyages

By Carl Phillips,

Poetry’s dirty secret

By Adam Zagajewski,

Poetry’s decay

By August Kleinzahler,

Cargo cult of the solstice at Hadrian’s wall

By George Starbuck,

Western half-acre

By Thomas Hornsby Ferril,

Editor’s study

By Harper’s Staff,

— (I)

By Harper’s Staff,

The loom of song

By Frank Dempster Sherman,

— (IV)

By Harper’s Staff,

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September 1889

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Poetics

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Cut With the Kitchen Knife

The irresistible beauty of all things

Like fragments in hard voyages

Poetry’s dirty secret

Poetry’s decay

Cargo cult of the solstice at Hadrian’s wall

Western half-acre

Editor’s study

— (I)

The loom of song

— (IV)

September 1889