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your description of the sun setting over the Grand Canyon was a particularly poetic piece of writing
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My mom had a more poetic temperament.
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Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
This album has a hell of a lot going on, but the bounty of ideas and poetic and precise storytelling grounds everything.
—Pitchfork, 20 Mar. 2026
Far from being confessional, the women of Under a Pannonian Sky present a poetic idiom that cultivates silence and irony, one that is haunted by history and personal tragedy without being beholden to identity.
—Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
How poetic that the same arm should deliver both pitches.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
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Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
This album has a hell of a lot going on, but the bounty of ideas and poetic and precise storytelling grounds everything.
—Pitchfork, 20 Mar. 2026
Far from being confessional, the women of Under a Pannonian Sky present a poetic idiom that cultivates silence and irony, one that is haunted by history and personal tragedy without being beholden to identity.
—Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
How poetic that the same arm should deliver both pitches.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Poetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetic. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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poetic
adjective
po·et·ic
pō-ˈet-ik 
1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of poets or poetry
poetic words
2
: written in verse
poetical
adjective
-i-kəl
poetically
adverb
-k(ə-)lē
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