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Nick Laird Reads Elizabeth Bishop

The New Yorker: Poetry

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How Do You Write Poems?

I wanted to try and bring in ideas from science and stuff. One always wonders what one can write that hasn't been able to have been written before. Just the idea of certain things that we know no from, things like entanglement,. or things about an atom, can be int atonce at the same time. And so new metaphors and new similes that science has given us when we try, and i'm interested in trying to use those as well.

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