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1518: On Being Told I Should Write a Memoir by Jan-Henry Gray

1518: On Being Told I Should Write a Memoir by Jan-Henry Gray

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Today’s poem is On Being Told I Should Write A Memoir by Jan-Henry Gray.


The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Today’s poem excavates childhood memories in a way only a poem can — and it enacts the fragmentation, the piece-iness, of memory. I should also mention that the poem uses lines from one of my favorite bands, Built to Spill, as an epigraph. Because in our memories, sometimes other people sing parts of the story.”


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