Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Poetics of the Poems
The poem is about privacy, and how it's in conversation with other poems. You can only receive this poem if you have prior knowledge of other poems,. I think that i loved his work partly because there almost felt like there was his effortlessness... But of course, on a craft level, it's doing so many interesting things. It's bringing in so many different references, but you don't need to know all those things in order to get the real heat.
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