Elevate Your Poems by Setting (the Right) Boundaries
Lesson 4 | Going Steady: Using Form and Perspective Restrictions to Break Free of Bad Writing
This is class 4 of 8 from Shannan Mann’s Forever Workshop “Hot and Heavy: Writing Love & Sex Poems that will Actually Get Published and Have Readers Begging for More”
Focalization, a concept borrowed from narrative theory, is a fancy word for perspective. Think about what perspective in art means.
Elements (usually non-literal o…