The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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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 learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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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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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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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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