Alison, you wrote:
>>Having spent so much energy learning how to make a narrative will, I am
completely certain, stand me in good stead when I approach an
anti-narrative. The same way as "breaking" grammar or poetic conventions
requires an intimate knowledge of what you're smashing.<<
One of the hardest lessons I had to learn as a writer was figuring out what
I could make an essay out of and what I could make a poem out of, and I
learned this only after many years of trying to make poems out of material
that should have been, and which ultimately became, essays. Now, what's
interesting is finding how much stuff that I start out thinking should be an
essay, or part of an essay, ends up as poetry. Rarely, if ever, though, does
material from my poems end up as essays.
Just my $.02.
Richard
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