Breaking The Page Barrier

18th April 2008 with 2 Comments

Poet Robert Peake muses on breaking through the barriers that keep a poem less than 40 lines in length:
The stand-up comedian Billy Connolly is a master at delivering humor through seemingly endless digressions. When he finally comes back to the main topic, long since forgotten in the audience’s mind, he earns not only laughs but [...]

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