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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

CHAPTER

I Go in to Get My Turn

The first two stanzas are Each eight lines long and they feel to me like many sonnets Their first six lines have three rhymes each of them is used twice. There's these slant rhymes that I would say become more present in the previous one mother and her Obviously those rhyme not only Sonically a little but they are the same figure, you know and papery and baby. But it's also as you point out kind of a little Shaky sometimes.

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