“The very conventions of poetry were devised to encode experience, to make it less obvious and thereby more true. To make a metaphor, after all, is to describe something in terms of what it is not, the better to apprehend what it is.”
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Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
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