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ekphrasis

I was trying to think of a poetic term for what you do with music, because poetry that’s inspired by paintings is called ekphrastic.

—p.154 The Art of Poetry No. 107 (140) missing author
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ekphrasis

I was trying to think of a poetic term for what you do with music, because poetry that’s inspired by paintings is called ekphrastic.

—p.154 The Art of Poetry No. 107 (140) missing author
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paratactic

This language is improvisatory, paratactic, his lyric strands drifting through time, place, and persona

—p.142 The Art of Poetry No. 107 (140) missing author
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welter

the Communist Party USA emerged, in 1919, out of a welter of dense socialist struggles

—p.30 by Vivian Gornick
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writ large

In them, as in the artist, the proportions of response were writ large

—p.22 by Vivian Gornick
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