East Side Voices with Helena Lee and Will Harris
Literary Friction
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How Do You Write a Poem?
i wanted to know why you chose the third person for this poem. I think i imagine him like a puppet version of me, or maybe version of me inside of a snow globe,. But also moving of his own volition, like when i shake the snow globe. The best thing about writing stories is that you can right in the third person. You can say whatever you want. Or it feels that way when you come from the perspective writing poems, where you're consciously aware all the tiame about the eye. My personal heritage is made up of lots of different perspectives even more granular than mine. It's something which fits really uncomfortably and you have to spend long time trying
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