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    • 1: Talk to Animals (and Stars)
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by Chuck Guilford

 

The priest or shaman
     of the tribe
casting his spell . . . was close
     to the roots
of the poetic experience.

— Stanley Kunitz

 

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   For This Life

Check out this new book-length online poetry collection by Poetryexpress creator Chuck Guilford.

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