Play It Again: Ocean Vuong
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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American Manhood: A Poem About American Failure
A novel or a poem even is really like a town square. You don't force people how to feel. You create a space in which they can feel in and you certainly decorate that space. And so whether it's patriots or Jolly Ranchers, I've certainly consumed those things. But in the calibration that they exist in a literary text, it's the work of the imagination.
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