. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise it allows it to be heard and even if we cant see it or feel it it is there shaping how we hear.

. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise it allows it to be heard and even if we cant see it or feel it it is there shaping how we hear.
Annie Finch

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the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular freeverse line or passage sounds scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.
- Annie Finch

. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise it allows it to be heard and even if we cant see it or feel it it is there shaping how we hear. Annie Finch

. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise it allows it to be heard and even if we cant see it or feel it it is there shaping how we hear.
Annie Finch