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Fiction\n\nBy GILBERT SORRENTINO  \nThe Perfect Fiction is a book of fifty-twopoems,one poem for each week of theyear...it is,in a sense,a yearbook.Thepoems stand singly,i.e.,the book is nota long serial poem,yet each individualpoem both gives and receives strengthfrom each other individual poem.Thepoems have an “echo”in each other,spe-cific words are repeated,certain moodsare approached from varied directions.Each poem is very consciously set into athree-line stanzaic structure.Mr.Sorren-tino explains,\"When this book was writ-ten,I found that my work automaticallyfell,almost all the time,into three-linestanzas.This was extremely natural tome,but I wanted to be able to use otherconstructs.In The Perfect Fiction I triedto exhaust the three-line stanza,to break,as it were,its hold on my line,by using itin any and every way I could.”  \nThe“perfect fiction”is,of course,reality.  \nWITHDRAWN  \nhttps://archive.org/details/perfectfiction0000unse  \n# T HEPERFECT FICTION\n\nTHEPERFECT FICTION  \nGilbert Sorrentino  \nW·W·NORTON &COMPANY,INC.  \nNew York  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS:Magazine,Wild Dog,Promethean,Poetry(Chicago),Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts,Poems Now(Kulchur Press).  \nCOPYRIGHT C 1968 BY GILBERT SORRENTINO  \nFIRST EDITION  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card No.68-14767  \nAll Rights Reserved  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada byGeorge J.McLeod Limited,Toronto  \nPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  \n1234567890  \n50,434","cbCaislVagXMyljp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaislVagXMyljp","pdf",2030161,88,"English","# Introduction to The Perfect Fiction\n## Structure and Themes\n## Technical Approach","[{\"question\":\"What is the central structure of the poems in The Perfect Fiction?\",\"answer\":\"Each poem in the collection is consciously composed using a three-line stanzaic structure.\"},{\"question\":\"How many poems are included in this book?\",\"answer\":\"The book consists of fifty-two poems, representing one for each week of the 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