First Draft - James Longenbach (New Edit)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Is There a Synchronicity in the Universe?
There are repeating themes through through your poems. At a certain point in the process of writing the book, my mother did die. Andi knew that i wanted and needed to write about it, but i couldn't. I didn't write anything about it for almost three years. It took me a long time to find a language. O in a way, what i was already writing was an arena that was ready to deal with something like that.
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