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AT NO COST AND POETRY IS LANGUAGE'S FIRST USE AND ITS LAST SO MANY LANGUAGES ARE DYING NOW PEOPLE

“Language is the ultimate human tool. Portable, invisible, and it zips around the world at no cost. And poetry is language’s first use and its last. While so many languages are dying right now, people continue chanting its poetry.”

Myles, Eileen. "Children's Poetry.” Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (2013), co-publication of the Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing, edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan.

Poetry Foundation

LANGUAGE ZIPS AROUND THE WORLD AT NO COST AND POETRY IS LANGUAGE'S FIRST USE AND ITS LAST WHILE

“Language is the ultimate human tool. Portable, invisible, and it zips around the world at no cost. And poetry is language’s first use and its last. While so many languages are dying right now, people continue chanting its poetry.”

Myles, Eileen. "Children's Poetry.” Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (2013), co-publication of the Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing, edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan.

Poetry Foundation

EVERYTHING'S FOG AND STEAM AND LUSTER NOW PEOPLE AND THINGS ARE NO LONGER CLEAR SEPARATE THE WORLD

“they dance solo, ecstatically with their shirts off. Everything’s fog and steam and luster now. People and things are no longer clear, separate; the entire world is the artist’s dream.”

Myles, Eileen. "Children's Poetry.” Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (2013), co-publication of the Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing, edited by Dorothea Lasky, Dominic Luxford, and Jesse Nathan.

Poetry Foundation

OUR VOICES HAD BEEN HEARD ROUND THE WORLD AND WE'D CREATED A PRESENT BEYOND THE IMAGININGS

“Rather, I heard in the album's title a metaphor of black history in this country. In those days, most people believed that our parents had done nothing but whisper against the continuing oppression of our people, when they spoke at all, and their children were angered, some even shamed, by what they took to be the cowardly silence. Our generation did raise our voices, had been heard round the world; and we'd created a present beyond the imaginings of our parents.”

Williams, Sherley Anne. "Returning to the Blues: Esther Phillips and Contemporary Blues Culture." Callaloo 14, no. 4 (1991): p.817. Accessed May 26, 2021. doi:10.2307/2931192.

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JSTOR

AGE EVEN NEW PARTNERS SHARE A WEALTH OF MOVES AND CAN FOLLOW EACH OTHER WITHOUT MISSING A STEP

“‘Doing being a Latin@ bilingual’ requires skills reminiscent of an expert basketball player or salsa dancer. When the rhythm and rules are acquired at an early age, even new partners share a wealth of moves and can follow each other without missing a linguistic step or dropping the conversational ball.”

Zentella A.C. (2003) “José, can you see?”. In: Sommer D. (eds) Bilingual Games. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. p.57.

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Springer Link

SAWS SWIMMING INTO BOARDS BUCKETS TAKING DENTS AND THE HANDS ON THE CLOCK TURNING THEY AREN'T MELANCHOLY

“Flowers optimistically goingt o seed, fluttering candles lapping
   the air, persevering saws swimming into boards, buckets
   taking dents, and the hands on the clock turning — they 
   aren’t melancholy
Whether or not the future looks back to trigger a longing for 
   consonance grieving over brevity living is ‘unfinished work to remember to locate something in    
   times to come”

Hejinian, Lyn. Happily. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2000. p.1.

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Litmus Press

THE ACTIVE ACCUMULATED CLAYS WERE NOW DRY AND WERE CUT AWAY BY FORCES THE PROCESS CONTINUED

“As the sea withdrew the destructive forces of weathering and the erosive forces of wind and running water became active. The clays which had accumulated were now dry and were cut away again by these forces. The process was not long continued and the plain was not completed, those clay areas which were capped by protecting sandstones remaining as monadnocks above the wide valley floor.”

Vaughan, Thomas Wayland. “The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California and its significance.” Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1916. p. 355. Accessed May 26, 2021.

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USGS Publications

OF WEATHERING AND THE EROSIVE FORCES OF WIND AND RUNNING WATER BECAME ACTIVE THE CLAYS WHICH

“As the sea withdrew the destructive forces of weathering and the erosive forces of wind and running water became active. The clays which had accumulated were now dry and were cut away again by these forces. The process was not long continued and the plain was not completed, those clay areas which were capped by protecting sandstones remaining as monadnocks above the wide valley floor.”

Vaughan, Thomas Wayland. “The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California and its significance.” Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1916. p. 355. Accessed May 26, 2021. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp98.

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USGS Publications