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Invisible Green VIII.(Self and Soul in poetry)

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 20030301
Author:Revell, Donald

"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."

--Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 193

Alone with the Alone, poetry is nevertheless ringed round by a friendship and by the adventure of Friendship. A poem is a force for change produced by a change, bearing witness to some new phase (or phrase) in the loving relationship between a poet's soul and a poet's self. These friends are a solitude together, and the conversation of their silence leaves a trace, a phosphorescence if you will. The trace is a poem.

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