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Ars Poetica
Epistles, Book II, Ars Poetica
by Horace
A Book Of Music
by Jack Spicer
A True Poem
by Lloyd Schwartz
All Their Stanzas Look Alike
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Always on the Train
by Ruth Stone
And It Came to Pass
by C. D. Wright
Ars Poetica
by Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
by Eleanor Wilner
Ars Poetica (cocoons)
by Dana Levin
Art Class
by James Galvin
Arthur's Anthology of English Poetry
by Laurence Lerner
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry
by Howard Nemerov
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
by Jane Kenyon
Broadway
by Mark Doty
Diving into the Wreck
by Adrienne Rich
Endnote
by Hayden Carruth
Envoi
by William Meredith
Ground Swell
by Mark Jarman
Instructions to Be Left Behind
by Marvin Bell
Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins
O Black and Unknown Bards
by James Weldon Johnson
On the Subject of Poetry
by W. S. Merwin
Poet's Work
by Lorine Niedecker
Poetry
by Marianne Moore
Prefix: Finding the measure
by Robert Kelly
Some Part of the Lyric
by Gregory Orr
Speech Alone
by Jean Follain
Strawberry on the Drawbridge
by Matthea Harvey
Take the I Out
by Sharon Olds
The Bargain
by Cyrus Cassells
The Bear
by Galway Kinnell
The Poem as Mask
by Muriel Rukeyser
The Poems I Have Not Written
by John Brehm
The Snow and the Plum — II
by Lu Mei-P'o
The Uses of Poetry
by William Carlos Williams
What He Thought
by Heather McHugh
Workshop
by Billy Collins
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The Allure of Forms  
by Coral Bracho
Translated by Mónica de la Torre

Blissful dance. Scream
of the shadows in light.
Night that pours its animal shrill
into the morning's joy.
There it ramifies,
bursts, intertwines itself. It blossoms
on its clearest edge. It's the allure of forms
in their steep nearness, their engulfed
proximity. Rivers become entangled with, yet do not merge,
an obscure lightning, an arborescent
flame. Fauna
sliding between the blazes.
It's the pleasure of opposites: the scattered pondering,
the swarming and resonant jungle.



From Reversible Forms: Contemporary Mexican Poetry by Coral Bracho, translated by Monica de la Torre. Edited by Monica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers. Copyright © 2002 by Coral Bracho. Used by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All rights reserved.
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