"If you look at the poems in Prelude, you can identify the later material by identifying the poems with more white space and unexpected line breaks. Grief did that to me and my writing. It exploded my expectations and introduced these blank pockets of deep feeling. My prose writing became more fluid and lyricalā¦"
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On how losing his mother affected his writing in āYou and I Have Peril in Common: The Millions Interviews Saeed Jonesā in The Millions (2019 Nov 21)
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