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on the lives of real human beings, and it must be revolutionary. True revolutionary poetry is not merely pretty images of nature which make the reader feel good. To the contrary, poetry at its best makes the individual and the entire society question himself and itself from the inside-out---question reality and the political and socioeconomic structure.

Paz writes that "the state [has] never been the creator of an art of real value." In fact, each time the state "tries to transfo

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