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  • "The Poet’s Responsibility is to His or Her Poem" Darren Bifford on Poetry Culture & Community
    "The Poet’s Responsibility is to His or Her Poem" Darren Bifford on Poetry Culture & Community
    June 21, 2018

    "The Poet’s Responsibility is to His or Her Poem" Darren Bifford on Poetry Culture & Community

    Darren Bifford's False Spring (Brick Books) is devastatingly timely, concerned as it is with the concept of collapse and cultural crisis. Tough, urgent, and unabashed, the poems in the collection push ...

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