
Colm Tóibín
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How Did You Get Your First Poem?
M september 19 67. Poetry. Ged 12. Meant to be studying, meant to be doing studying science and latin writing poems. So like thomas manning your novel, who goes to work as a clerk and then hidbol of his proper work under under a book and writes instead,. you were doing the same thing i was, instead of, instead of home work. M i think the literary thingis sometimes dominant, but it's what you write about then. It's the, i think, areas of unresolved experience that come and come again, like something that's haunting you, and that you, no matter what happens, you explore.
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