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The List Poem

The List Poem

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Mar 06, 2023
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I’ve been thinking about list poems. Poems that enumerate and accumulate. Poems whose cadence, momentum, and music are shaped by listing.

Umberto Eco, the Italian medieval historian, argued that “The list is the mark of a highly advanced, cultivated society because a list allows us to question the essential definitions.” I’m intrigued by this idea. Bein…

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