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From: "sharon brogan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: "The Circuit Rider"
Wow. I don't often say to myself "I wish I could write that" -- but I did. I
can't seem to find narrative, story, in me. This -- an entire novel, so
carefully chosen --
Really marvellous, Frederick.
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Thanks, Sharon. -- Two tips: 1. Distinguish between your genuinely
subjective experience and your narrowly autobiographical experience. The
former is what counts. As I said before, neither "I" nor "you" (nor
parents, siblings, Aunt Tilly etc.) are at all important in themselves; only
as functions of a poem and how it engineers its reader's experience. 2:
Realize that a narrative, a story, is a metaphor. In a narrative poem, the
guiding incident is the poem's metaphor. (Stylistically, therefore, there
should be as few other metaphors as possible.)
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