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On slivers, figurative language, and the “f-word”

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Jul 25, 2023
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Stephanie Balzer (SB) is a writer, coach, and founder of Mission. She recently wrote the Why  Is McLuhan Interesting? edition, among others.

Steph here. When I taught poetry and composition to university students as an adjunct—with middling success because teaching people to write is, wow, really tough—I often selected Carolyn Forché’s “The Colonel” as p…

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