Feb19

Thirteen Ways Of Looking At a Poem – 9

Posted on February 19, 2017 by anna mosca

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I’ve tried to explain
how the whites around
the words are so important
to me those silences I caress
on paper breaths spaces
make the poem

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2015-04-08 08.56.42

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After Wallace Stevens poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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rogermoorepoet on February 20, 2017 at 4:35 am said:

White space: the art of focussing … and of giving your words room in which to float. Lovely. S o much theory packed into these little poems. I love them.

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Jon on February 20, 2017 at 2:57 pm said:

Nice picture!

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