
Night Sky with Exit Wounds: Ocean Vuong and Max Porter
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Poetry in the Dickinson'sonian Tradition
I think one of the stunning things I love about that book is that it's this act of innovation but also this this homage to lineage. It's a way to to interrogate the uselessness and also the arbitrary spaces of label making right and genre making. The rhythms and rhymes simply helping us carry and memorize these large works are perhaps going back now to what was most essential when they were first written. Do you need some time off can you do it now? Yes well I never imagined this sort of reception for the book and I want to finish on this thing because we need to open this up to the audience again somewhere. Are there any particular people who have influenced your
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