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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Lyric Poem

I like that there turns out to be some suspense because of course I write it knowing how things turned out and the reader Experiences it not knowing well. There's something I want to try to name about the ending And the last two stanzas each night I had written here is what happened Like a kid whose pen makes her small life exciting Then gone on mistaking the plot for the story as if the point of writing were writing.

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