I wrote “STAND UP ROUTINE” after I listened to 54 hours of a movie podcast in two weeks. Jokes are really hard to write. Poems should have more jokes in them. Is this a persona poem? For the record I do not believe in putting tomatoes on sandwiches. Too wet.
Sasha Debevec-Mckenney on "STAND UP ROUTINE" |
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James Longenbach Explores Lyric Poetry
"The conjury of a successful poem lies in its delicate, outwardly contradictory balances: strangeness with logic, freedom with forethought, constraint with expansiveness. With his new book, as in its predecessor, Longenbach invites the reader to see and hear the mechanics that, like the gears of a watch, drive a poem’s endlessly repeatable unpredictability."
via @UofR |
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