image of "a single shawl/Wrapped tightly round us," then flings at them Darlene's poem about killing her husband and the demand of militant poet-playwright Amiri Baraka for "poems shooting like guns." Poetry accommodates ugliness as well as beauty, Holly insists, "and the response of the soul to either extremity: empathy." from Los Angeles Times: 'Channeling Mark Twain' by Carol Muske-Dukes
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