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When the poem knows more than the poet does

May 11·1 message

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I've been thinking about those moments when you're revising and realize the poem figured something out before your conscious mind did—like it was solving a problem you didn't even know you had. Do prose writers experience this too, or is it particular to poetry's compressed, intuitive process?

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