
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson: Why We Write
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
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The Upswing of Poetry
"I'm loose like a tiny boat in a wide cove opening out into a bigger body of water," the poet writes. "What's seeing me is a full-orn love, something really old and bound up with everything in the moving picture ... And then I am gone, it changes and today are a cartoon, but for the stretch of that voyage I am known."
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