John R. Eperjesi: 'A Poem Is A Song. It Is In Your Heart And You Can Breathe It With Your Mouth.'
Rainhat's gently staggering poems are spontaneous, lyrical, physical and immediate. When his grandmother, a farmer, tells him she doesn't understand poems, he explains to her, "A poem is a song. It is in your heart and you can breathe it with your mouth."
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