It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace th…

Raymond Carver
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It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. ✨ Raymond Carver (2015). Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories, p.25, Vintage
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