
First Draft - Jeffrey Yang
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Shape of a Form in a Poem
The shape of a form is, like, you're talking about physical shape in these, in these various poems. It's not something that, ah, that comes that i think i'm going to do right immediately,. Like to start, it comes out ar as part of the process as it's being written for me. And so, like, the first sequence of poems are pretty much, you know, usual, flush left with stanza breaks and indifferent things. The coral for cama poem was written for camal brathwaite, the great barbadian poet. Ah, and so it kind of made sense to do thatit connected so much to me with to come out
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