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	<title>The Poetry of Living Fully &#187; poetry</title>
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		<title>Dogen&#8217;s Death Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four and fifty years I&#8217;ve hung the sky with stars Now I leap through&#8211; What shattering! -Dogen (1200-1253)]]></description>
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		<title>Try and Find a More Original Writer than Henri Michaux</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s The Lock-Eater, from page 49 of Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 In the corridors of the hotel, I met him walking around with a little lock-eating animal. He would put the little animal on his elbow, and then the animal was happy and would eat the lock. Then he would walk further [...]
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		<title>Distinctions Between Vignette, Prose Poem and Very Short Story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some great happenings in literature can be called flash fiction, prose poetry, short-shorts, and even sudden stories &#8212; though the name &#8220;Sudden Story&#8221; strikes me as a little weird, like a stylistic choice rather than a form. It&#8217;s useful to think primarily of the author&#8217;s intent. Did they call it a poem? A story? A [...]
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		<title>To Go to Mountains Seeking Enlightenment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the mountain seeking enlightenment. There was no enlightenment on the mountain. In desolation, I cried out and there came an echo. I shouted again. The echo came again. - Soen Nakagawa]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Ruscha on Poetic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue16/artistrooms.htm) TATE ETC. They are like poetic readymades. Does poetry come into your take on words? ED RUSCHA I once thought poetic was a nerdy word, but finally I cannot think of another one to replace it. Poetry, as vague as it is, enters my work, as does geology, archeology, music, together with some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I do not know how to make poems&#8221; &#8211; Henri Michaux on Writing Poems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lloyd Webber</dc:creator>
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