7.8.2026
RUMORS AND STORIES
NOTE
Each of this poem’s three parts is a separate collage of words and phrases found in the following excerpt from Joan Didion’s essay “The White Album,” published in her collection of the same title.
NOTE
Each of this poem’s three parts is a separate collage of words and phrases found in the following excerpt from Joan Didion’s essay “The White Album,” published in her collection of the same title.
I was nine and living in Southern California in 1969 and vividly remember the events of that summer. Your three poems, like the rumors of that day, take all the basic material and create vastly different messages. Clever, clever you.
I’m impressed by the poetic structure but moved by the content