Tin House Live : How to Write a Hoax Poem with Kevin Young
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Importance of Prophecy in Poetry
Recent books like pranksters, subtitle making mischief in the modern world are from this year. Hoaxes can become denatured like the truth they seem abivalent about at best. The hoax is a form that infects other forms such as journalism and radio plays. It's successful for a time at least because it's contagious or better yet parasitic. Too often though it ends up destroying its hoax. Forged avoids the encyclopedic nature of the majority of these books about hoaxes.
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