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Original poem reprinted online here: "Fiction" by Lisel Mueller Originally read: March 20, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Lisel Mueller Here's what past me wrote at the end of the poem, "maybe bibliophile, maybe relationship, I don't know about meta-narrative though."  And past me came to this conclusion through the title "Fiction."  And although there could be multiple ways to address "Fiction,"  like a definition poem, or a description of someone's life, here I felt the poem went towards tmeta-fiction, or the art of writing fiction. But the poem starts off with a direction "Going south," and along with a direction, there is a collective voice of "we."  Yes, this is the time I question who the "we" is, but here I'm shifting my decision towards the title -- "Fiction" and the concept of fiction because of the simile, "unroll like a proper nove:" And here the assumption for...