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Joseph Massey – On Poetry, Power Games, and Advice for the Canceled

High Noon

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Is There Any Bitterness in Your Poetry?

I wouldn't say that there is any bitterness in this at all. That's like one emotion that completely doesn't run through your work, or any of the work that you've done that i've read. I made a tacit agreement with myself that i was not going to become bitter. And i had to work, and i still work pretty hard every day to not become bitter. When the translation first started, i was deeply into meditation on things like that. That really saved me. Now i've converted to catholicism, and having a spiritual life, having a spiritual path, that became the infra structure. If i hadnt, bitterness will consume anybody. You know, it

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