1030: Fourth Wall Arpeggio
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Today\\u2019s poem is Fourth Wall Arpeggio by A. Van Jordan.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\\u2026 \\u201cSometimes, a speaker in a poem will acknowledge its own artificiality by addressing the reader directly or by making a self-referential remark, all to say, Hey, reader; I know you\\u2019re there, listening in. Breaking the fourth wall in poetry removes pretense and lays bare a vulnerability that creates an intimacy and collapses distance.\\u201d
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