"For [Reginald] Shepherd, the history of poetry isn’t a series of erasures. Rather, it is an accretion of styles, many of which persist long after newer styles have risen. As he puts it in the essay 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry,' 'the definitional incoherence at the core of the modern notion of poetry is a sign of its historical evolution.'” Robert Archambeau • Poetry

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