Reinventing the epic with 'The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois'
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jeffers, who is a poet, took to writing a work of such length that takes place over centuries. She said a lot went into it, and there is even a point where her characters started talking to her in her dreams. "When i would wake up and the words would come to me, it was almost like a very long prose poem"
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