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The Paris Review
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The Paris Review Issue 232
The Paris Review Issue 232
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The Paris Review
(editor)
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The Paris Review
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The Paris Review Issue 232
by
The Paris Review
(editor)
by
The Paris Review
(editor)
paratactic
(en)
(adj) relating to parataxis, a grammatical concept involving the placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination, as in "Tell me, how are you?"
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This language is improvisatory, paratactic, his lyric strands drifting through time, place, and persona
uncertain
3 years, 10 months ago
This language is improvisatory, paratactic, his lyric strands drifting through time, place, and persona
uncertain
3 years, 10 months ago
ekphrasis
(en)
a rhetorical term originally taught to Greek students as a way of bringing the experience of an object to a listener or reader through highly detailed descriptive writing
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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.
strange
3 years, 10 months ago
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.
strange
3 years, 10 months ago
recondite
(en)
(adjective) hidden from sight; concealed / (adjective) difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend; deep / (adjective) of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure
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It was a hermetic text, brimming with recondite content and promising recondite meanings that I couldn’t quite get to then.
notable
3 years, 10 months ago
It was a hermetic text, brimming with recondite content and promising recondite meanings that I couldn’t quite get to then.
notable
3 years, 10 months ago