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Some of the essays deal with the issue of etching as drawing, an aridly academic topos since etching is intrinsically a drawing-like process, produced by scratching through a wax surface over a copper or other metal plate.
My lecture could be called aridly academic, but I include it as a reminder that in the seventies I spent much time devotedly doing this kind of thing.
If the poet errs in either direction-toward excessive or unmotivated emotion or toward the aridly journalistic-he or she quickly arrives at sentimentality or bathos.
 
 
 
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