
David Baker Reads Stanley Plumly
The New Yorker: Poetry
The Power of Courage
I think that's one of the things circling back to your poem that I like about your poem a lot is that you have this we and a poet like shame is he to me is able to make himself culpable in whatever he's examining and critiquing. There will come a time when we do it now now write your poem knowing that that you are complicit and culpable to whatever damages are being done. It's not enough as you said to stand off in the distance and name those damages or name those bad things you have to be right in the middle of it and at least shouldering some of the blame.
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