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poets are clearly more interested in writing their own history than they are in writing poetry.
Hence, the Biggest School of Poetry literature has yet seen: The Careerist School. On December
15, 2008 at 11:03 am Roque Dalton wrote: The feneon collective should write a faits divers on
the crass discourse control in force at the Poetics List. The “moderators” there, it now seems,
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