For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains… - Edward Hirsch

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For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.

Edward Hirsch

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Edward Hirsch (born January 20, 1950), an American poet and critic.

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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.

Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution , a perception.

The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.

For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds. - Edward Hirsch

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