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prosody
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

what a long poem needs is a prosody that will carry it when the writing isn’t especially brilliant

—p.196 Poetry and Terror: Some Notes on Coming to Jakarta (191) by Robert Hass
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demotic

It's more demotic than "Sleep", more spontaneous and tougher

huh, weird

—p.174 Ko Un and Korean Poetry (165) by Robert Hass
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tendentious

The Woman Warrior’s tendentiousness is feminist

—p.157 Maxine Hong Kingston: Notes on a Woman Warrior (156) by Robert Hass
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raffish

that raffish play with eloquence

I thought it was a synonym of rakish!

—p.125 Mary Austin and The Land of Little Rain (115) by Robert Hass
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weir

that the grand struggle for existence is a dream, a meaningless bubble in the meaningless weirs of the evolution of matter

—p.102 Jack London in His Time: Martin Eden (97) by Robert Hass
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