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Unread 05-09-2008, 11:03 AM
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Originally posted by Carol Taylor:
Art is art and the poem is about how people try to rope it in and impose social and intellectual and moral restrictions on it. Am I wrong?

Carol

This is exactly how I read this poem -- another one of my favorites.

"Art is a man-child boy-girl compromise" is my favorite line. along with that great coyote-howl in the end. Art should be free of all this...but it isn't. Well done!
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