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Han VanderHart
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Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social & @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 hanva
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What I do say is that any expression at all which has had a miraculous, liberating effect on someone—an effect of liberation and of understanding the world—has attained its goal and achieved form. Eugenio Montale, trans. Jonathan Galassi

Note that I don't say that art, and particularly music and po-etry, must be easily mnemonic or memorable. This is an opinion concerning poetry which I have seen attributed to the Hon. Pal-miro Togliatti, and when I read it I congratulated myself that I did not figure among the admirers of that aesthete (or that man). If what he said were true, Chiabreras would be worth more than Petrarch, Metastasio® would be better than Shakespeare, and the poems in Alice in Wonderland would outdo all the odes of John Keats. What I do say is that any expression at all which has had a miraculous, liberating effect on someone— an effect of liberation and of understanding the world-has attained its goal and achieved form. From “the second life of art” essay in the title of the same name
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I haven’t read this essay since my graduate work at Georgetown, but it was time to revisit 💙

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Han VanderHart
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Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social & @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 hanva
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