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THE CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL

BY JOANNE KYGER

In San Francisco in 1957 when I was first "coming of age" in poetry, Joe Dunn gave me a copy of Poetry New York #3, which contained Charles Olson's "Projective Verse." I had questions then about how to structure my words on the page. From then on, "Projective Verse" became my constant meditative text. I found comfort in the dense muscular conversational rhetoric and became aware that it was possible to chart the actual breathing of a human voice on the page... READ ESSAY