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For most of history poetry has been an oral art, it retains the vestiges of orality, an experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.
— Edward Hirsch
What It Means
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About Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch (born January 20, 1950), an American poet and critic.
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