A Wandering Coracle

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A Wandering Coracle
Clarice Lispector 1920-1977

Clarice Lispector 1920-1977

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”

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Rob Clements
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One evening I was sitting with a quiet poet with whom I was discussing narrative technique. [Yes, my life is really that exciting.] As she was dealing with some medical issues, she thought that poems about her unfolding sense about living with such challenges might be rendered with greater perspicacity if viewed from the present into the past. In other …

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