Opus

We put the verse in controversy

Allen Heinrich    Jeremy O'Neal
Rachel Asbury   Lance Asbury


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"All that a reader aloud of his own poems can hope to do is to try to put across his own memory of the original
impulse that is behind his poems, deepening maybe, and if only for a moment, the inner meaning of the words
on the printed pages... [ But there is a danger, ] for what a reader aloud of his own poems so often does is to
mock them or melodramatize them, making a single, simple phrase break with the tears or throb with the
terrors from which he deludes himself the phrase has been born. There is the other reader, of course, who
manages by studious flatness, semi-detachment, and enormous condescending undersaying of his poems,
to give the impression that what he really means is, "Great things, but my own." That I belong to the very
dangerous first group of readers will be only too clear." — Dylan Thomas

         
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