How to Grow a Poem

How to Grow a Poem

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How to Grow a Poem
How to Grow a Poem
"You don’t really know what you have.”

"You don’t really know what you have.”

Two VERY DIFFERENT poems by Dane Cervine

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Kenneth Salzmann
Jan 06, 2024
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It might seem that, other than a shared author in Dane Cervine, the poems “The Blue Horse” and “The Jeweled Net of Indra” have little in common—and that’s certainly true if you are looking at such concerns of poetry as form, diction, style, and even subject matter.

But then there is this: viewed side by side, they also provide something of a workshop in …

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