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Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”

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Bethany was the tone of the reading I mean. There's an earnestness that is sort of underscoring that question at the end. The penultimate couplet there are rhetorical happenings written directly onto a flower. When wah read that she slowed down and I think that kind of asking like what are the rhetorical happenings? For me rhetoric always implies an audience and so what is that kind of like relationship. How is that dynamic apparent even when it's not narrative or when it'sNot overtly narrative explicit. Interesting.

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