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    Voicing the Ineffable

    Mar 01, 2022 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    POEMS MAKE YOU HEAR something that is inaudible in most prose: the white space of the page. This is the space you hear in a line break and between stanzas; it is the silence in which poems sign off and disappear. The sound of innuendo, not inflection; not the

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