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its soundless tapping on the carpet,
I had to look up the word "aphasia,"
since, of course, I could not see your foot
behind the podium, and was actually thinking
of last night's conversation, when Milan Kundera
you should) spoke through me about the characters
he might have been but now could only imagine--
since language is the place to look--
what memories we separately hold of today
will discuss our absence among themselves.
John Harvey
"I might quote the well-known lines, 'Poetry makes nothing
happen, but people die every day for lack of what can be
found there.' I also might add that, in today's fast-paced
world, it's a genre that both fits the pace via brevity, and
counteracts it via its own slow, reflective form of language
usage."
John Harvey, IU Southeast
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