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social and aesthetic norms regarding shifts between first, second, third person and verb tense vis-a-vis intelligibility, myth of stable identity, literary conventions.
first, second, third. past, present, AND conditional. “inconsistent voice”
Tension Means Shifting Tenses=the grammar handbook i will never write
there’s a she and a you and an i and we’re all in the same room but there’s only two of us. i had a writing professor once quote billy collins and say that a poem should definitely have no more than two people in it, and one is better.
is it okay to write this way (“naturally”) and then call it queer subjectivity?
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bluehairboyman answered:
yes
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travelcoat liked this
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travelcoat said:
Also, I just thought about Hannah Weiners and those poems where she wrote down the voices and words she heard in visions. Anyway, this isjust to say “yes” to messy subjectivities rolling around together.
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travelcoat answered:
I also struggle to find a way to understand my impulse to shift tenses. Also, I mean, you can push back on Collins with Whitman and Ginsberg
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cyansix answered:
I don’t see why not, seriously. Who’s to say you’re a me or a you or a she/he/it? It’s restrictive to limit us to one pronoun.
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