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  • on poetry, and agosín’s ‘i lived on butterfly hill’

    on poetry, and agosín’s ‘i lived on butterfly hill’

    “Poetry is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without” Wallace Stevens One evening many years ago, I stood up in a modestly filled room at the Goethe Institut, Nairobi, walked somewhat unsurely to a seat at the front and read some poems from my ‘Pink book’…

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