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First Draft - James Longenbach (New Edit)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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The Most Beautiful Poem Ever Written

A passage on the last page of a novel called ing my parmashine bell was published in 19 87 by joanna scott, an american novelist. "I have always thought that, as a passage of prose, this was one of the most beautiful things that i know," she says. Maitju seems primally evocative of something deep about the human condition to me, at the same time that it is about particular characters in a particular narrative"

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