Sunday, March 27, 2005

WHAT IS POETRY


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"Militant poetry as the agent of truth is the best arm against home-grown fascism."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti*



* delivering a rough draft of Ars Poetica on the occasion of his receiving The Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America.

The completed work will be called Ars(e) Poetica. The work-in-progress What Is Poetry to which the poet is constantly adding is available as a book: 0-88739-369-1 $9.95.