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logopoeia.

One of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.

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  1. One of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.

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Where this word comes from

Coined by Ezra Pound from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “speech, discourse, story, study, word, reason”) and Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis, “poetry”) in a 1918 review of the Others poetry anthology.

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