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poem to poem

Poems, I am saying, are neither about 'subjects' nor about 'themselves.' They are necessarily about other poems; a poem is a response to a poem, as a poet is a response to a poet, or a person to his parent.

—Harold Bloom, A Map of Misreading (Oxford Univ. Press, 1975)