John Lee Clark — Self Portrait
Poetry Unbound
The Intimate Form of Communication
"I was tasting toothpaste and fennel in my own mouth, you know, in some kind of associative projection into the poem," she says. "It is a way of being present to yourself, asking yourself, where am I being searched and tried? Where am I doing well?" She adds: 'And here in the searching around your own mouth and figuring out what that taste is that feels like a metaphor for the inner life too'
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