Hello, friends.
I’ve been thinking about how poets end their poems, and particularly about poems that end in ways that delight, surprise, and lead us to deeper questions.
Here's Charles Olson on finding the end of a poem: "You wave the first word. And the whole thing follows. But—You follow it. With a dog at your heels, a crocodile about to eat you at th…
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