![]() ![]() You already know the answers to your questions. The same questions: explanation and biography. ![]() ![]() I was so excited that he very kindly responded: “Your review is very kind. Does it matter to you whether or not your work is received as confessional? What was your intention for this project? And, most importantly, when do I get to read your next book? I also told him that I was tickled by his recent BOMB interview! How we remember and describe particular moments allows and calls for imagination. The fictionalizing of an event is inevitable. You are transforming a fundamental truth by imagining (telling) a version of the truth. The act of writing a poem changes the truth in itself. Ideally, the reader is able to enter the work, each stanza unlocking the next, each line break revealing something else. I feel this way mostly because I see truth as a limitation. Explanations and biography can (in my opinion) kill a poem. ![]()
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