Epigraphs


     Imagination has no source except in reality, and ceases to have any
     value when it departs from reality.
          --Wallace Stevens

     Ideas of Order was offered to the reading public of the thirties by
     a man not in the least ignorant of the issues or, for that matter,
     of the controversies and the codes.
          --Stanley Burnshaw

     A poem . . . is a kind of strategy for coping with a given scene or
     situation.
          --T. C. Wilson, a radical poet, writing about Kenneth Burke

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