
Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith
The New Yorker: Poetry
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How's Your Hour Different?
The hour shifts in many different periods of the book, and it capitulates everybody. I kind of stumbled upon that because most of the poems, when i was first writing it, they were almost written with like multiple personality disorder. So much of what i was thinking was by jericho brown, from the tradition in which he writes, sometimes we ain't everybody,. And i was trying to think who at any given well, it's a very commanding voice as well.
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