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David Antin

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

Poetry

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David Antin is reflecting on the unclear beginnings of his poetry writing and how uncertain he was about its purpose. He suggests that at the time, he didn’t have a clear idea of what poetry was supposed to achieve or mean to him.

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