Feel free to post your questions here! I, in particular, wonder about her balance between the surreal and the literal narrative. How did she balance each in the manuscript? Does one come easier than the other?
I wonder what Maria recommends for developing the intelligence to know what can be left out of a poem--especially for those of us who tend to overwrite. In other words, how to develop trust in the images/narrative already on the page and know the poem's feeling is coming across without needing to include every narrative detail.
I'd like to know if she deliberately included an arc, similar to a novel arc but looser and lyrical, or if the collection just turned out that way. I'm also curious about how she decided how many sections to have and which poems to put within each section.
I would love to hear Maria's thoughts on which poems she cut from the manuscript. Also, when she was submitting did she send a bare-bones version (the minimal page #) for contests /open reading periods (...and then add more to the manuscript once it was accepted?) How many times did she send her manuscript out before she found the right publisher? I look forward to hearing her insight on the whole process!
Feel free to post your questions here! I, in particular, wonder about her balance between the surreal and the literal narrative. How did she balance each in the manuscript? Does one come easier than the other?
I wonder what Maria recommends for developing the intelligence to know what can be left out of a poem--especially for those of us who tend to overwrite. In other words, how to develop trust in the images/narrative already on the page and know the poem's feeling is coming across without needing to include every narrative detail.
Maria has such a clear sense of her own poetic voice in A Little Feral. I'm wondering if she has any advice for new writers in developing their own?
I'd like to know if she deliberately included an arc, similar to a novel arc but looser and lyrical, or if the collection just turned out that way. I'm also curious about how she decided how many sections to have and which poems to put within each section.
I would love to hear Maria's thoughts on which poems she cut from the manuscript. Also, when she was submitting did she send a bare-bones version (the minimal page #) for contests /open reading periods (...and then add more to the manuscript once it was accepted?) How many times did she send her manuscript out before she found the right publisher? I look forward to hearing her insight on the whole process!