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First Draft - Maggie Smith

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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How to Make Meaning in a Poem

"I've been testing out so many metaphors in this book, trying to find the perfect, imagistic shorthand for this heart punch of an experience," she says. "There isn't a singular golden, impossibly definitive metaphor that encapsulates everything." She writes on her back patio where she can hear the birds and the wind and see the light coming through the leaves.

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