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Short Conversations with Poets: Jesse Nathan

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Short Conversations with Poets: Jesse Nathan The first thing one notices when one reads a Jesse Nathan poem is: one’s body humming along to the music of his words. How does such a thing work? It’s the sound patterns—rhyme, inner rhyme, alliteration, assonance—yes, but it’s also how the poet uses the sound patterns on the line-by-line level, and as connective tissue between different poems,…

McSweenys 1.0k 2023-12-11