Here are poems that have fulfilled a poet's dream, drawing from audiences frequent collective laughter, occasional collective sighs, now and again collective gasps, and the applause (oh, yes, the applause).... The collective boils away. Now the room is quiet. It's just the words and the minor revelations that turned the words to poems and the reader, who meets the poems in the same solitude where the writer discovered them. The reading is primarily...
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