Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson: Why We Write
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
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The Unspoken Relationship Between Form and Content
The Argonauts is about what it's about, but it has like a phosphine or a skeleton that it couldn't be about anything in a way. The content to me is often like you need enough of it to do the formal experiment. Right. And I was telling Eileen about some offers that had come in since the book had come out. Yeah. But part of it is that the beautiful act is not enough and the hard thing is to say, like, that's a real eddy, to say thebeautiful act is enough. You mean of writing? Yeah. Absolutely.
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