
When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb
Poem Talk
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The Metro Poem: An Experimental Elegy
The Metro poem is about this amazingness of how I want, I want to be a new kind of poet that can somehow capture the sociality of a crowd. Here it becomes elegiac. So it is the apparition of lost souls in a crowd. And so I'm going to describe it as experimental elegy,. Well now we get politically more complicated as we go to curb five. Does anybody want to try to say what the, the extra complication here is? It's obvious, but it still needs to be said.
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