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		<title>Momentum Through Rhyme</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Carter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My dewy-eyed Disney bride,  what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde?
Monsters?
.
Whiskey-plied voices cried fratricide!
Jesus don&#8217;t you know that  you could&#8217;ve died,
You should&#8217;ve died.


 
 
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The first verse of the song “Fake Palindromes” by the folk-rock musician Andrew Bird is positively overloaded with rhymes, which creates a strong sonic momentum, emphasized by the rhythm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redeeming the Cliché, Flaubert&#8217;s Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kimberly MacCormack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“‘It’s  because I love you,’ she  would interrupt. ‘I love you so much that  I can’t do without you—you  know that, don’t you? Sometimes I want  so much to see you that it tears  me to pieces. ‘Where is he?’ I  wonder. ‘Maybe he’s with other women.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interpretations of Infinities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Hong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[.
Crepuscule
An elephant in its bathtub
and the three children sleeping
off the strange, strange tale
the tale of the sun sinking 
—Philippe Soupault (1897–1990)


.
Starry Night
In the late Nineteenth century
one is out painting landscapes
with spiralling sky
and helicopter lights approaching.

—Les Murray (1938– )
What brevity!  Can four lines of verse capture the essence of abstract things?  Soupault’s “Crepuscule” (my own translation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thrill of Being Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laura Wanamaker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



Listen to Jonathon, the narrator of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the locals are giving him panicked looks as he’s about to set out for the Count’s castle:
I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiss the Paper With It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fabrizio Ciccone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We should all know about Donald Barthelme&#8217;s use of the cut-up technique in his postmodern adaptation of the classic fairy tale &#8220;Snow White.&#8221;
&#8220;Informal statements             the difficulties of owner-
ship and customs        surprises you by being Love
exchanges       paint it          understanding brown
boys without a penny         I was             [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Arundel Rhyme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evan McWilliams]]></category>

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
&#8216;Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense&#8230;.

So Alexander Pope said in 1711 in his &#8220;An Essay on Criticism,&#8221; and the principle that &#8220;the sound must seem an echo to the sense&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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