When I first got sober and I walked through New York, I felt like a ghost. It took about seven months for me to start to get a feeling that I knew my instrument again. And it's sad to be much more about my process rather than there being some imaginary place, you know? When we're talking about doing anything in the grips of an addiction, it's sort of like the room just starts to get really small,.
Debbie talks to poet Eileen Myles about poetry, fame, and politics.