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Kim Addonizio

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Kim Addonizio's poem “Knowledge” is a twenty-line free-form poem, with no rhyme scheme. Indeed, free verse has no distinct limits or rules and so does not restrict the poet to a particular format. In “Knowledge,” Addonizio's narrator asks the reader to consider whether the horrors of modern life are limited in some way to the tragedies to which one has already been exposed. “Knowledge” appears in Addonizio's fourth book of poetry, What Is...

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