First Draft - James Longenbach (New Edit)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Are You Looking Too Hard?
In the longer poems, i have that written down, that t there's changes in time and voicend. The way the poems move one to the next seem to me at this point, completely inevitable. It fell into four parts because that was the way in which the poems asked to be organized. In my experience, even though i had a zillion different orders that i tried, once it finally came together in this way, it felt completely locked. I couldn't move a single line.
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