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Repetition and imperatives in villlanelles

Pidgins and creoles as products of collective linguistic creativity

Returning in thought with Adam Zagajewski to a concert by Hildegard Lernt Fliegen

Adrienne Rich's "Rusted Legacy", Hermann Hesse, and Ilya Kaminsky

Ideoplasty in Porphyry and Goethe

The end of Toni Morrison's "Tar Baby"