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“To fling out broad its name”: Poetry, Sound, Libraries

Reuben Gelley Newman

I write occasionally on the intersections and fugues of language, literature, music, and information. I do interviews too. “…like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name…” (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

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