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Denise Levertov’s “An Ignorant Person”
Below is a glorious Denise Levertov poem, “An Ignorant Person”. The poem was written in 1959, and appeared in Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts in September of 1961 (pg. 120): Way out there where words jump in the haze is the land … Continue reading
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Cereal, Comma, and Robert Duvall
Not that kind of cereal, but the serial comma. A great example (via Making Light) of what can happen when you drop the serial comma from a sentence: For those who don’t like to squint at small print, the newspaper … Continue reading
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