Czeslaw Milosz states in his essay “The Captive Mind” that “a poet does not merely arrange words in beautiful order. Tradition demands that he be a 'bard,' that his songs linger on many lips, that he speak in his poems of subjects of interest to all the citizens” (qtd. in Cavanagh 16) - at least, it is the province of the poets of Central and
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