Letter to Capitol Hill

We did not want to get closer but let history hiss at our backs
Jennifer Chang
from the book An Authentic Life / Copper Canyon Press

In our series Drafts, we invite poets to explore strategies for writing and rewriting the poem, its many lives, before (and even after) it is published.

Jennifer Chang on Letter to Capitol Hill
Photo: Jennifer Chang
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