one of those veins of connection that allow essays to breathe, an artery if you will, opened between ... Twitter are interested primarily in the now; these function in the present tense. And sometimes prose ... editing. The skills that make great films are not dissimilar to those that make great prose—an awareness of ...
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get the sense that Whimsy is finally ready to change when we leave her in the final chapter. That ... find her too “unlikeable.” I hope for those who identify with Whimsy that they can feel some comfort in ... Later in the book, she looks for her reflection in a restaurant window but doesn’t see the scar. We get ...
Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit — your two most recent poetry books. Or, if not, what was the ... poems. Wait to show them to others. Wait to read them publicly. Wait to finish your work. There is such ... spell, then perhaps at some point your poetry writing will return. And if it doesn’t, then your work as ...
could be read at full size or, when flipped open, twice its normal width. We also had no trouble reading ... themselves to a blog post or cheap joke on Twitter. I may or may not do this every week, it depends what ... send me back to reading the "manifesto" slush pile again. E-readers are the new complimentary ...
trying to break those generational cycles we were speaking of? BKD: Your reading gets at the heart of ... and complicated portrait. TQ: This isn’t the first time your readers have read poems about Brendan. He ... explore your family’s history. What made you feel like you were ready for this subject in your new book or ...
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around for the friendlier zones. Sometimes you have to take running leaps to get to them. We keep moving. ... not always in straight lines. but we keep moving. And we can chat. "How's the ... "I don't have a mother." It can be stressful, though some times we break into song ...
that too much reading of those whose language and vision is of necessity so close to one’s own can seem ... your life, I mean in your poetry. In what you valued most on the page. What would you say if we applied ... definition a bringing together of those selves in ourselves. Poetry makes us more whole than we thought we ...