The Colossus: A Novel by a Poet

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She published it first to protect people that she fictionalized, so she was because of the autobiographical. People in that magazine group were reportedly not particularly happy about. And then she also apparently wanted to keep her reputation as a serious writer and had already written Colossus at this point. She didn't want the book to be judged as a book as a novel by a poet.

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