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Elevate Your Poems by Setting (the Right) Boundaries

Lesson 4 | Going Steady: Using Form and Perspective Restrictions to Break Free of Bad Writing

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Shannan Mann
Jul 21, 2024
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Art by Mariam Chagelishvili

This is class 4 of 8 from Shannan Mann’s Forever Workshop “Hot and Heavy: Writing Love & Sex Poems that will Actually Get Published and Have Readers Begging for More”

Focalization, a concept borrowed from narrative theory, is a fancy word for perspective. Think about what perspective in art means.

Elements (usually non-literal o…

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