Poetry. ARS POETICA is not a sonnet sequence--despite the resemblances--but a sequence of "soundings." Each poem is carefully dated: it was precisely at this moment that these words occurred to me; it was at this moment that I breathed these words in ("inspiration"). Remembering Wordsworth, we might call these poems spots of time.
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Poetry. ARS POETICA is not a sonnet sequence--despite the resemblances--but a sequence of "soundings." Each poem is carefully dated: it was precisely at this moment that these words occurred to me; it was at this moment that I breathed these words in ("inspiration"). Remembering Wordsworth, we might call these poems spots of time.
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