Maimonides wrote that we should avoid extremes and aspire to the middle way. He was referring to virtues and vices, not poetry. But in encountering a poem that does not adopt any of the classical forms, one good way to grasp its structure is sometimes simply to count the lines, figure out which one falls [...]
The Man He Should Be: Stephen Dunn’s “Odysseus’s Secret”
May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Culture and Ideas
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