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Final Cut: The Selection Process for Break, Blow, Burn

For decades, poetry has been a way of losing money for trade publishers.  Then Camille Paglia’s Break, Blow, Burn became a hit.  Why?

via  Arion | Arts & Letters Daily

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1. "The British-based Poetry Archive has released statistics that visitors to its website are now viewing a total of more than one million pages a month. More than 125,000 individuals - or 'unique visitors' in web jargon - have visited the site, which hosts poems and audio readings by the poets themselves." via The Telegraph (UK)
2. J.G. Ballard’s experience of Shanghai was, he said, closer to the normal lives of the majority of people in the 20th century than most realize...more | via Arts & Letters Daily
3. In "Education by Poetry," one of his finest essays, Frost argued that an understanding of how poetry works is essential to the developing intellect. He went so far as to suggest that unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values, "you don't know how far you may expect to ride it and when it may break down with you." Those are very large claims. via Jay Parini | Chronicle Review

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