
Tiana Clark — My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work
Poetry Unbound
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The Relationship Between Art and Work
The first time i encountered this poem, i thought it was genius. Tiana clark read it for the poetry foundation and my god, what an extraordinary poem. The person speaking in the poem is a writer who likes coffee and social medium,. Trying to keep up with journals, who has a lot to do. And thereis a complicated world of comparison in the life of the speaker in this poem - who is paying attention, in therapy, to the relationship between work and art. When it's your work, can be a complicated beast of a thing because the very thing that gives you life can sometimes cause you great anxiety as you're trying to make your living from the thing that you love
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