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A Non-[ ]Hotic Child Avoids the White Woods
- Colorado Review
- Center for Literary Publishing
- Volume 50, Number 3, Fall/Winter 2023
- pp. 28-29
- 10.1353/col.2023.a912427
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
“A Non-[ ]hotic Child Avoids the White Woods” is a lipogram that can also be read with the missing letter added back in. Without Rs, the poem is a fanciful or surreal account of a day in the life of the speaker at age eight; with the Rs replaced, the speaker reflects on the social and physical burdens of articulation disorders, as well as the rest one can find in the Imagination.