
First Draft - James Longenbach (New Edit)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Forest in Your Poems
A lot of your poems have the forest in em. It's either a setting, it's being sand found in the forest or its trees growing magically in the desert. But altocops spookily allegorical. No matter if it rains, it's time to follow the path into the forest. A way of thinking about poetic language that really interests me because, a, it's not so common in contemporary poetry.
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