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A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

Sven Birkerts

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Sven Birkerts
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
Essayist
Literary Critic
University Teacher
Pontiac
Michigan
Language
Light
Construction
Poem
Material
Inner
Materials
Space

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