Elise Hu
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Appearances Over Time
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But I find it to be always absolutely true.
And that doesn't mean you can't play around.
You think it's a long-lined poem.
You try it that way, but maybe you nip it back.
But you start to catch a rhythm.
and you start to sort of say, okay, this is the amount.
And then you say, all right, in this next line, let me follow that amount.
Hmm, okay.
Let's see, what about that?
So is it a negotiation?
It's a calibration.
Calibration.
I mean, that process sometimes takes a very long time, but then you've got sort of a mass and then you can put your hands in the clay.
I'd like to ask you to read a poem from this period.
It is from your first book of poems, The Venus Hottentot, published in 1990.
And the poem is called Boston.
Can you tell us a little bit about it before you share it with us?
So that was an it was a one year master's program.
And Boston and Cambridge changed a lot.
This was 1985.