The Chimney
The Chimney
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1995
Authors
Phillips, Patrick
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Plumly, Stanley
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Abstract
There is nothing worse, I think, than paraphrasing a poem,
much less a whole manuscript of poems. Doing so wrongly implies
that poetry exists mainly as ideas, and not, as it truly does, as
words. Thus, that an "abstract" should summarize the writing in
this thesis seems to me not only impossible, but also undesirable.
Instead, for an expression of my methodology I offer the poems
themselves, many of which take the form of the ars poetica; they
discuss what I try to do when writing far better than I ever could
here. All I can say to introduce the poems, then, is that I hope they
speak for themselves.