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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Creative Independent's Discourse on Messiness
Roxanne Jones: You speak to another element of your poetics that we don't often hear put forth aspirationally in poetry, which is messiness. She says you feel like a poem can feel messy when the reader is walking alongside the speaker and it's not controlled by an omniscient aerial position. "I write it with a sense that the flow is going to be a little bit unruly," she says about her own work.Jones: Your desire for messiness isn't just an aesthetic, but also political; I love what you said about excess.
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