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An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.

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Robert Pinsky
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: October 20
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Long Branch
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