Edmund WhiteI'm sorry, " Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.
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When someone says “I’m sorry, but I felt it was too organized.” makes you feel as if the person is complaining about the very things that you love about their work. You can almost hear them saying, “I like to write poems and write lists of things that make me sad. I’m not sure why those things thrill me so much, but they do and I refuse to give them up.”
Source: Forgetting Elena
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