Plaquette

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Plaquette

(1) A work of medallic art differing from ordinary medals by its rectangular or nearly rectangular form.

(2) A disk made from metal, ceramic, or some other material and having a picture in relief. Plaquettes are used to decorate furniture and other household objects.

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The plaquette started to move again, with a new brusqueness.

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The title of the present slim but brimming plaquette shows that poetry is perceived as an act of giving, of generation or honoring, and that, far from folding back upon its own interior exquisiteness, it invites our return to the world as a place undoubtedly of difficulty, challenge, and paradox but also of feasting and love.