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Rain, Rain [1]

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10.10.17

In his poem “Rain,” Houston-based poet Kevin Prufer creates a distinctive atmosphere through repetition: “Rain made red leaves stick to car windows. / Rain made the houses vague. A car / slid through rain past rows of houses.” The poem [3] begins innocently enough, but the accumulation of the word “rain” soon brings it into a nightmarish territory. Try choosing one word and letting its repetition guide you through a poem. The poem’s logic may need to contort itself in order to make room for the repetition, but that is the point—use a formal constraint to get your creative mind moving differently.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/rain_rain [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/rain-1