You are on a balcony, you appear, and a bird lands, and also you make attention contact, and also you feel good, right? It achieves — to me, that’s great, that’s wonderful if I could have a poem that in any way achieves that feeling — and maybe that’s all. For the reason that it’s a of good use thing to experience: beauty, goodness. There is a gamut of feelings through the [collection], not only loss. I believe you can find moments of pleasure, and small resistances, and moments of also simply sonic pleasure or wordplay.

SL: I surely appreciated the puns in addition to moments of opposition, and in addition the clearly political lines, like, “it is horribel / off corse to be tangibel that i / inside kapitel.”

JC: “It really is terrible to be tangible inside money” does occur in a couple of other spots. There is a little about being recognized, and exactly how it is not pleasant constantly to be grasped.

We must respect individuals if they are unknowable, or opaque, not merely once they fit a kind of convenient, pre-formed narrative or presumption we now have about them. I do believe there is a propensity in poems and narratives to portray moments of often injury or heartbreak from those who are marginalized for some reason, to make them relatable or sympathetic up to a viewer who is assumed never to engage in that identification.

If [it’s] anyone telling that whole tale, it really is their upheaval and they are comfortable sharing it, in addition they would you like to type of humanize by themselves by doing so, needless to say, which is fine.

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