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Poetry

Petrushka

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3. Would he still think so after reading the July/August issue of POETRY magazine where . . .

Reply to ananda (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 3, 2015, 01:35 PM

Aug 2015

. . . he'd find such "poems" as the one at the following link . . . and taking into consideration that POETRY has, since its inception, been the exemplar or the premier arbiter of taste?

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/250606

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