From: Elsa Marston <elsa.marston_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:46:01 -0400

One of the great pleasures in reading Helen's novels-in-verse (and I've read them all) is to appreciate the poetic form she uses. My question is so basic, I feel it probably has been come up already--but I'll ask anyway.

Helen, how do you decide what poetic form you want for a particular story, whether a classical one such as the sestina, or a form of your own invention? Do the elements of the story--plot, theme, characters, setting--seem to call for a particular form; or is it a more gradual process, that you develop in the course of writing?

Thanks for this really interesting discussion!

Elsa www.elsamarston.com

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