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Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

Imagination

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Robert Creeley is expressing how the usual assumptions about writing—like thinking about the writer’s identity, the readers, and the editorial process—feel harsh and limiting. He finds these mental frameworks unexpectedly harsh and discouraging when trying to imagine the act of writing and reading.

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