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climb Parnassus

To write poetry. Parnassus is a mountain in Greece that was sacred to the Muses. With the literary magazine deadline looming, I need to climb Parnassus this weekend—and pray that some decent poems come out of it! Who are your favorite modernists to climb Parnassus? Ezra Pound? H.D.? William Carlos Williams? ee cummings? Nah, I never wanted to climb Parnassus. Writing fiction, particularly short stories, always appealed to me more.
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