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Credo What good is poetry if it doesn’t stand up against the lies of government, if it doesn’t rescue us from the liars that mislead us? What good is it if it doesn’t speak out, denounce what’s going on? It’s nothing but harmless wordplay to titillate and distract— the government knows it and can always get rid of us if we step out of line. That I believed in poetry, even when I betrayed it, that I came back to its central meaning —to save the world— this and only this has been my own salvation. after C. Milosz 5 ...

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