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A poem from this movement notes how the “years pass, years in which, I take it, events were not lacking” and repeats the phrase “a pause, a rose, something on paper.” An essay from this movement attacks “official verse culture” and contains quotations that exposed readers to Veronica Forrest-Thompson’s out-of-print theory of “poetic artifice.” A member of this movement advocated the “open text” in “The Rejection of Closure” and, at age 37, (15[1])wrote a prose poem with 37 sections of 37 sentences, titled (*) My Life. The “West Coast” wing of this movement included Rae Armantrout and (10[1])Ron Silliman. (10[3])This movement’s short-lived (10[1])namesake magazine was edited (10[1])by Bruce Andrews and Charles (-5[1])Bernstein. For 10 points, Lyn Hejinian (“huh-JIN-ee-in”) was a member of what loose avant-garde movement, whose name is sometimes stylized with equal signs (10[1])between each letter? ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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