Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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How Did the Pendemic Affect Your Poetry?
i wanted to hear about how, if at all, the pendemic, or sheltering at home, or quarantine, ah, how it played a role in regard to a changing your poetry or shaping this collection. I was able to stay home a and in that staying home, i do think there was a deepening of a silence, a a deepening of what it was to refrain being alone. And i think on that same level, i really if i didn't believe in loneliness or aloneness, i did believe in missing certain people and missing certain things and missing certain pleasures. The book became an invitation toe or what that missing was, and realizing that missing was a way of loving.
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