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Scope and Contents Designated Writers Forum Number Ten. Mills writes: "That poetry developed language as medium of perception or experience with the coming of the printed poem, when poetry was first known to young men as a silent thing, when a poet could be a poet & never read aloud, the bard died away, but not extinct. That language as object of perception or experience, that is modulation of human voice as carrier of poetic truth rather than semantically induced mental pictures, or, in visual terms, the magic of the written sign, in 20th century urban environment made explicit, was implicit always in the spoken chant or poem & the awe of the rune. That these 2 languages can lead to very different poetries, as regards emphasis on word as semantics, but.as regards poetry as meaning in other than semantic terms, this theoretical division is useless, that sound poetry as such is an extraction from all poetry that has ever been written or recited, that poetry has always been music when spoken,...

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Preface by L. Backstrom and G. Palm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.