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Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin

The New Yorker: Poetry

CHAPTER

The Gunny Sack

I love the way that rhyme both the image of the gunny sack and also the rhyme of sack and back Yeah, those things appear at the beginning and the end Which you know helps bring us back to the sort of origin of this moment. The thing I love about a ballad is it starts with obviously a very rhymed opening But it's the same thing at the end, but it's changed utterly Uh the same exact stands are usually appears at the endbut there's something about that here. It has a kind of ballad quality of travel and also uh big event that you know In this case a individual but often a community kind of faces.

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