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Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
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Creates Detail Echo Interlocking Painting Scream Spun Tension
So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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Become Clear Country Nine Past Resent Speak Thinking Very Year
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem.
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Fully Fun Hardest Mean Open Poem Thing Writing
This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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Began Compositional Emulation Neighbourhood Old Poem Process Siqueiros
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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Alma Circumstance Enough Fortunate Get Gone Home Indiana Being Job Mater
I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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Like Spock Unflappable Wanted
I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn’t fun to write, even though the poems aren’t 100% autobiographical.
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Autobiographical Enough Happened Honest More Poem
Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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Black Country Geeky Kid Mythological Nothing Poor
But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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Balance Excellent Fortunately Over Perception Place Sometimes
You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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Album Check Forever Man Out Transformed
By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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Amplify Honest Mean Myself Mythological Trying Version
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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