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THE HAND CLAPS Let the poems make the decisions
RACHEL RABBIT WHITE & ROSIE STOCKTON What follows is a recorded conversation between two poets whose respective work and lives are fashioned around the question of how poetry gets written. The conversation previews a series of poems titled Rob Me Then in which each poet invites the other to steal language and ideas from each other, troubling the tradition of single authorship and the contradiction at the heart of possessing an idea. The remainder of the poems are published on our website.
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