On Daphne & Jim...
Catherine Meng said:
I'd never thought about this same "structure" in poetry terms & it works, especially well when rendered this deftly. There is a narrative, but it is criss-crossy & switchbacked, working its way through the poems like a bread trail in a forest of hungry poetry birds.
Which was exactly, EXACTLY the point! That narrative is not easy, need not be. That a path has all manner of branches. That you can stop and look out the window.
Especially in retrospect, when you get to rearrange, remember in any way...
I'd never thought about this same "structure" in poetry terms & it works, especially well when rendered this deftly. There is a narrative, but it is criss-crossy & switchbacked, working its way through the poems like a bread trail in a forest of hungry poetry birds.
Which was exactly, EXACTLY the point! That narrative is not easy, need not be. That a path has all manner of branches. That you can stop and look out the window.
Especially in retrospect, when you get to rearrange, remember in any way...
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"...narrative is not easy, need not be. That a path has all manner of branches.
What a lovely way to say this!
i can't comment on the half-life review post for some reason. but congrats. :)
Should be interesting. After all, I was there, for at least part of it.
Heck, if not for my need for sleep during final exams at Pomona, they probably couldn't have gotten together.
Steve Corrsin
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