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    Living in the Song

    Mar 02, 2020 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    RHYME AND METER are commonly understood today as technical constraints, as barriers to expression, standing between the poet and experience. But what if we were to turn the idea around and view them as vehicles of access, perhaps even a means of letting go, of getting closer to life?

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