
First Draft - James Longenbach (New Edit)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Writing a Poem
It depends in ways that you've given me, interestingly, the opportunity to describe already the writing of the poems and the accumulation of the poems into what begins to occur to you. Ah, so this poem was written relatively late. I was interested in finding strategies to create the kind of effect i just described, apropos of this poem. And ah, once i had discovered the possibility of using phrases like that, the forest of some sadness or the romance of pleasant thought. That happened very quickly in this case. In other cases, earlier on in the processit habeen more a sense of of groping and trial and error and discovery through meticulous, but always a little bit of ha
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