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The poems go two by two across facing pages

A Talk on Rhyme Orchard "To have the idea ofDavid Brazil In A Talk on Rhyme, a text distilled from a lecture given in 2014, poet David Brazil reflects on rhymes emergence, progress, inoperativity, and prospect. The Talk is supplemented by an essayistic bibliography on subjects ranging from classical prosody to American folk music, via writings on and by poets long dead whose names are obvious: Saint Paul, Dickinson, Herbert, Spicer, Hlderlin, Dante, OHara.