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| | Poetry as Sight and Word |
 | | Walking among trees in England, I have seen beech, oak, chestnut, and birch: and a poem might recount such a walk among trees, and name them. |
 | | Let's call this a "music poem", and say that its main purpose is to expand on the music of words and ideas that begins with the consonance of "beech" and "birch" and continues through the alchemy of "copper" and "silver" -- as a consonance of ideas. |
 | | But my taste is for the marriage of form and content, emotion and intellection, passion and constraint, and the marriage of "woods and words" is very much a part of it. |
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