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The Music of Poetry [1]

Submitted by jkashiwabara on May 6, 2015 - 10:44am

"The lessons in tone, rhythm, cadence that you can learn from listening [to music] are important as a poet." Nathaniel Mackey, winner of the 2015 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry [2], describes how listening to international music has influenced his writing process.

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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/the_music_of_poetry [2] http://www.pw.org/content/nathaniel_mackey_wins_bollingen_prize