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When I was in college, I took a course on modern poetry. One of our frequent assignments was to memorize a poem, and then reproduce it on a page in class, with every line break, colon, and comma in its proper place. Points deducted if not.
It should feel archaic to me now, with my advanced notions and decade of experience in teaching, and how little v…
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