firstfullmoon:Chen Chen, from “Craft Capsule: On Becoming a Pop Star, I Mean, a Poet&rdqu
firstfullmoon:Chen Chen, from “Craft Capsule: On Becoming a Pop Star, I Mean, a Poet”[text ID: For years I believed poetry was the only place where I could be all my selves, any self. I wrote, trying to answer the question, “How can a poem hold the myriad me’s and realms and loves and ferocities and shards and velocities—this whole multiverse that the life cannot, yet?” But can a poem do this? A book of poems? Is poetry a place? I am a poet because I ask poetry to do too much, and then it does it.] -- source link