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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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