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I'm finishing this manuscript of poems the way I finish thank-you-letters. One a day. I should be finished by August!!!
But I'm nervous, don't really trust my daily-writing judgement. Of course I'll edit and rewrite, but because of the structure of the project , I'll need to substitute a new for an old anytime I pull a weak poem. So editing is more like a puzzle.
Hence I'm looking for readers. But not just any readers. I need several, and I need them to have very different aesthetics. They need to be honest to a fault. And I'll pick them based on their own work. Ideally, I'll end up with someone who writes some "experimental" poetry, one who writes some "narrative lyric" stuff, one who writes in tight form. Etc.
If you're a willing reader, please backchannel me. And by "willing" I mean that you're at least interested in the project, which is a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse, using formal structures to tell a "true story" in hopes of finding a more complicated/interesting way to "do" narrative.
Incidentally, the project is also the story of my parents' marriage and divorce.
Interested?
I'm finishing this manuscript of poems the way I finish thank-you-letters. One a day. I should be finished by August!!!
But I'm nervous, don't really trust my daily-writing judgement. Of course I'll edit and rewrite, but because of the structure of the project , I'll need to substitute a new for an old anytime I pull a weak poem. So editing is more like a puzzle.
Hence I'm looking for readers. But not just any readers. I need several, and I need them to have very different aesthetics. They need to be honest to a fault. And I'll pick them based on their own work. Ideally, I'll end up with someone who writes some "experimental" poetry, one who writes some "narrative lyric" stuff, one who writes in tight form. Etc.
If you're a willing reader, please backchannel me. And by "willing" I mean that you're at least interested in the project, which is a choose-your-own-adventure biography in verse, using formal structures to tell a "true story" in hopes of finding a more complicated/interesting way to "do" narrative.
Incidentally, the project is also the story of my parents' marriage and divorce.
Interested?
2 Comments:
Hi Laurel--I'm interested in reading your manuscript, esp. the whole choose your own adventure thing.
Want to talk about it?
apelegrin@selu.edu
Alison
Email me about this. Your email address (sweetlorelei...) doesn't seem to be working. My messages get bounced back.
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