When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music. (Garth Greenwell)

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

Garth Greenwell

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