Presenting Absence: William Matthews' "Men at My Father's Funeral"

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January 12, 2024 • 6 mins

In this Short Form episode, I talk about the difficulty of depicting absence in a poem and how we need the contrast of presence and absence. I use William Matthews' "Men at My Father's Funeral" as the example.

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